It’s official: Dell to offer certified, pre-installed Ubuntu Linux

Axweildr  |   May 1 2007   7:23PM GMT

ubuntu is a safe/test environment to my mind, Dell may be attempting to pull an AMD v Intel pull on this one, I’ve used ubuntu, not as a primary machine, FWIW I wouldn’t run to market with it as a hardened server …

Alex  |   May 2 2007   12:36AM GMT

After trying to install Ubuntu 7.04 on my laptop, I think the only viable way to make it popular *is* to preinstall it - I spent half a day and could never get my wireless card to work right, experiencing one problem after another despite finding lots of ‘help’ on various web pages. Linux still has a way to go when it comes to configuring hardware!

Ryan  |   May 2 2007   1:24AM GMT

Ubuntu is a great solid distro and a great option. I have been running it exclusively on my laptop for almost a year and would NEVER go back to windows. As long as you get hardware that is Linux compatible Ubuntu is great. Coming preinstalled should only make it better. Good move for Dell, good move for the open source community, perhaps a little bit of just deserts for Microsoft’s evil empire!

Martin  |   May 3 2007   3:08PM GMT

I think its a good idea that Ubuntu and Dell have found a way to work together in order to bring a more diversed set of offerings to the customers. Many good things can come out of this coorporation between HW distributers and SW vendors. I use ubuntu on 2 laptops and they both work fine, but still, there are many settings which is not ‘out of the box’ and therefore a little bit to difficult for pc-beginners/noob/novices. Hopefully there will be some excellent teamwork, great support and good service like Dell-service-support and the Ubunto communities are known for.

asked yesterday a Dell-person the Ubuntu/Dell coorporation, but in Denmark there had been no internal announcements. Guess we can just wait and see.

Notice: But I must say that discussions and argumentation about this issue and open source in general would be even more valid and ‘fine’ if people keept comments like “microsoft’s evil empiere” etc. out of their argumentations. thank you!

Dell to offer pre-installed Ubuntu linux at The SoapVox  |   Jul 17 2007   10:05PM GMT

[...] Category: Geekness, Tech | Well, it seems like Dell finally did it.Dell and Canonical have officially announced the certification of Ubuntu on a select group of Dell laptops and desktops, and they will be offered with Ubuntu pre-installed.The computers will be sold via Dell’s web site, said Canonical’sdirector of operations Jane Silber. “We have worked with Dell to getUbuntu fully supported and fully certified on Dell hardware,” she said.“Ubuntu has the full endorsement of Dell.”I found this through an article on the Enterprise Linux Log » It’s official: Dell to offer certified, pre-installed Ubuntu Linux.To me, it’s obvious that there are a whole lot of reasons why this is a good thing, both for the enterprise buyer and the home buyer.Of course, there’s always the question…what’s next? In another article on ELL, Raven Zachary from 451 Group speculates (cause I don’t see any hard facts…but I hope he’s right :)…said the news also meant users could expect an Ubuntu server offeringfrom Dell in the near future. “I think you will find Dell, over time,also offering Ubuntu across its server product line as Ubuntu grows inpopularity in the data center,” he said.BTW, it seems like the version that’ll be showing up on Dell HW is gonna be Feisty Fawn, aka, Ubuntu 7.04.Technorati Tags: dell, ubuntu, linux on desktop, linux, commercial linux Local Tags: Geekness, TechIf you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed! [...]