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Quick fyi. It's possible to get Ubuntu Linux preinstalled on Dell
I apologize if everybody already knows this, but I thought it would be
of interest. http://www.ubuntu.com/dell I see this as a major victory for the open source community, and, just possibly, some real competition for Bill Gates. |
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Quick fyi. It's possible to get Ubuntu Linux preinstalled on Dell
On 12 Jul, 08:58, " wrote:
I apologize if everybody already knows this, but I thought it would be of interest. http://www.ubuntu.com/dell I see this as a major victory for the open source community, and, just possibly, some real competition for Bill Gates. Only in the USA. The UK sales site does not list it, and enquiries are stonewalled or ignored. |
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Quick fyi. It's possible to get Ubuntu Linux preinstalled on Dell
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:58:52 -0700, "
wrote: I apologize if everybody already knows this, but I thought it would be of interest. http://www.ubuntu.com/dell I see this as a major victory for the open source community, and, just possibly, some real competition for Bill Gates. I tried Ubuntu on my own and I sincerely doubt that it will ever be any competition for evil Gates and his minions. The GUI looked like it was designed by a kindergarten class, and the distribution that I installed had a known problem that prevented the display to work on a WXGA+ Dell laptop. Even though it was a known problem, it took weeks for them to resolve it. I think Linux and open source let go a window of opportunity. When hardware costs were much higher, a Linux-based PC could have had a large price advantage because it would require far less hardware to run. Now, however, competant laptops are available at very low price points so Linux and open source couldn't claim significant hardware cost reductions anymore. Palm is going to release it's "Foleo" (aka "Falieo") soon, which is Linux based. It's also going to release some Linux-based PDAs. It would be nice to see Linux have a niche somewhere, but the poor way in which Palm has been executing means that it problably won't come from them. |
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