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Dell fixes Open Sauce rip off
TINMAN DELL has fixed a solid state storage problem on its Mini 9 netbooks that robbed Linux punters of three quarters of their storage.
The outfit has come up with the novel idea of actually giving the punters what they paid for when they bought the gear.
The company ships the Mini 9 with either 8GB or 16GB of solid-state storage. However some of the early Ubuntu models were given a 4GB disk image which meant that up to 12GB of precious disk space is being laid to waste in an unused partition.
Some Ubuntu users acused Dell of shipping a smaller hard disk than stated but got jolly confused when they had a peek at the BIOS and found that the 16GB drive is actually there.
Dell said that it has spotted and corrected the problem, and suggests affected users run the recovery DVD to correct the problem. ยต
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Guess the crystal-bothering gitwizard barely read the article he was ripping off; maybe they don't let him use actual computers? I suppose the etch-a-sketch is a cheerful colour, anyway.

Really, this is meaningless drivel, when it could have been summarised with twice the information content in two lines- by someone with even a nanoclue.

Sigh.
A simple mistake? Read your own article and the comment at
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/05/dailywibble-05-09-2008
I would have thought someone would have suggested gparted to fix this.
Trixibelle must be channeling the spirit of good ol' drashtek, because I swear reading that comment made me stupider.
"Stupider"? Possible as there's no such word, unless you're Steve "funner" Jobs. I think you just caused an underflow error, kid.
I want to the site and they offer Linux on the low end model but it is upgradable before buying it, cool. I am going to write Dell and ask them why the linux model after upgraded to the XP version specs is the same price. Does Dell get XP for free now?