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Posted on 05/01/2007 7:03:31 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
In a joint statement released today, Dell Inc. and Canonical Ltd. announced that Dell will now offer laptops and desktop computers pre-installed with Ubuntu Linux 7.04.
The computers will be sold via Dell's web site, said Canonical's director of operations Jane Silber. "We have worked with Dell to get Ubuntu fully supported and fully certified on Dell hardware," she said. "Ubuntu has the full endorsement of Dell."
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Excellent! Microsoft better wake up or the slide will continue and accelerate.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Is this something that is going to be (figuratively) stuck in the back of the store and you have to ask for it to get it? Or, is it going to be (again figuratively) prominently displayed and agressively marketed? Inquiring minds want to know. It will be interesting if it is the latter. I frankly expect the former.
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The “Fierce Fawn” hasn’t worked so well for me as the “Dapper Drake” did.
It lost internet connectivity somehow.
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I'm not thrilled with certain aspects of it so I'm wiping it and will be loading Simply Mepis 6.5.0.2 next week.
Among the things that I didn't like was the whole "nanny-distro" thing where root access is not granted to any account unless using sudo. I was able to give root a password and tell Ubuntu to let root login...but still...kind of a pain. It also was a struggle to get it to use WPA for my wireless....after I spent an hour getting my Broadcom mini-PCI board to work.
I did like the apps that came with it and the Add/Remove wizard was quite nice as well.
All in all I think this is a good move by Dell. Ubuntu won't be as easy for some as an OEM Winders install...but it will expose it to a LOT more folks.
I might buy a Dell laptop as a first step, and dump Microshaft Windows XP on my current Thinkpad when they start announcing no more support for it.
Vista is not an option. Ever.
Let’s wait and see.
I don’t know......... this *might* get me to buy a laptop if I could get a major manufacturer with one pre-loaded.
Though I think that when it came time I would still not buy a pre-fab. I really just want to build a laptop from scratch.
I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.Please, just tell people to use KDE.
So what type of Word processing, spreadsheet and browser programs does Ubuntu have built in?
LOL!
They have
http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/
and
http://www.koffice.org/
*AND*
http://www.openoffice.org/
So what type of Word processing, spreadsheet and browser programs does Windows have built in?
None. You have to buy it separately.
For browsers ubuntu has firefox, epiphany, konqueror, as well as several others.
That's like buying a car's engine at one dealership and the body at another. I'll stick with MSFT, thanks.
^^^^^^^^^^That’s like buying a car’s engine at one dealership and the body at another. I’ll stick with MSFT, thanks^^^^^^^^^
You’re contradicting yourself. It’s microsoft that makes you buy it separately.
So I guess you enjoy buying your car’s engine someplace else.
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