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Michael Dell's Linux choice? Ubuntu
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| April 18th
| Steven J Vaughan-Nichols
Posted on 04/19/2007 7:46:32 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
What operating system do the heads of Fortune 500 companies run on their personal laptops? In the case of Michael S. Dell, president and CEO of Dell, it's Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn.
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: dell; linux; opensource; ubuntu
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Bwahahaha, this is gonna drive GE nuts
To: N3WBI3; ShadowAce
open source ping, IB4GE!!!!!!!
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posted on
04/19/2007 7:47:03 AM PDT
by
Halfmanhalfamazing
(Linux, the #2 OS. Mac, the #3 OS. That's why Picasa is on Linux and not Mac.)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing; rzeznikj at stout; MikefromOhio
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posted on
04/19/2007 7:59:36 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
(This tagline brought to you by courtesy of Happygrl)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing; N3WBI3; ShadowAce; Ernest_at_the_Beach
To: JRios1968
To: ShadowAce; Tribune7; frogjerk; Salo; LTCJ; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; amigatec; Fractal Trader; ...
OSS PING
If you are interested in the OSS ping list please mail me
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posted on
04/19/2007 9:33:57 AM PDT
by
N3WBI3
(Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
The one thing I like about Ubuntu is using sudo instead of signing on as root to do system changes, makes it easier to track who actually made the changes.
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posted on
04/19/2007 9:36:25 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: martin_fierro
Guess I am finally going to have to break down and try Ubuntu, just wish it had a better name.. ;)
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posted on
04/19/2007 9:41:54 AM PDT
by
N3WBI3
(Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
To: dfwgator
dfw,
That is possible on any linux, though none that I have ever worked with does so out of the box. Usually you have to shange sudoers and the ssh config file.
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posted on
04/19/2007 9:43:03 AM PDT
by
N3WBI3
(Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
To: N3WBI3
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posted on
04/19/2007 9:43:13 AM PDT
by
Cogadh na Sith
(Banning Bread and Circuses is the New Bread and Circuses....)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Dell has been shipping Linux on workstations for some time, it’s the home desktop computers they took a beating on and quit selling. You do understand the difference, I hope?
To: N3WBI3
I’m a relative Linux newbie, pretty much worked with MS. But we just got new workstations with Ubuntu installed, I also have dual boot w/Windows and Ubuntu on my personal laptop.
The one thing that bothers me about Ubuntu, and I even remember another Freeper mentioning this, is that for some reason, my laptop heats up more significantly when running under Ubuntu. I don’t know why, or if it’s something in the BIOS is need to set. If I close my laptop with XP, and put the laptop away for awhile, it will be cool when I open it back it, but with Ubuntu, it will stay hot, even when it is hibernating.
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posted on
04/19/2007 9:47:54 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
04/19/2007 9:51:52 AM PDT
by
N3WBI3
(Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
To: N3WBI3
Thanks, I’ll try that and see if it helps.
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posted on
04/19/2007 9:54:01 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: N3WBI3
I am loving Sabayon....Gentoo based....
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posted on
04/19/2007 10:02:43 AM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The DemonicRATS believe ....that the best decisions are always made after the fact.)
To: N3WBI3
“All you need is Ubuntu” - Bill Clinton
To: Golden Eagle
The article talks about laptops, not just workstations. "What operating system do the heads of Fortune 500 companies run on their personal laptops? In the case of Michael S. Dell, president and CEO of Dell, it's Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn."
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posted on
04/19/2007 10:12:54 AM PDT
by
N3WBI3
(Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
To: Golden Eagle
Yup a stupid name
Not that Bill Clintons post had was anything about Linux. It would be like saying “An Apple a day Keeps the Doctor away” is talking about Apple computers.
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posted on
04/19/2007 10:14:11 AM PDT
by
N3WBI3
(Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
To: N3WBI3
“Precision” is Dell’s professional workstation line, including laptops. You might have noticed the price for this one is just shy of $5,000.
To: Golden Eagle
...and what does this have to do with anything?
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