Star 'A Year Later, Sales of Linux on Dell Computers Continue to Grow'
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 17th Apr 2008 16:23 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
Hardware, Embedded Systems About a year ago, Dell made an important move. Pushed by thousands of comments in its IdeaStorm website, the company started offering Ubuntu preloaded on a small selection of its machines. Initially only a US-based program, but later on, some European countries followed. However, criticism was not absent; buyers complained the machines were hard to find on Dell's website and that Dell did not do enough to promote sales of the Ubuntu machines. Today, Dell has commented on the whole Dell-Ubuntu marriage.
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by uaxactun on Thu 17th Apr 2008 16:57 UTC
uaxactun
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2008-04-17

In the last two years:

8 boxes with winblows that now run ubuntu
1 laptop with winblows now running ubuntu
2 dell ubuntu boxes
1 dell server runnung ubuntu

I take particular joy in formatting Vista installs.

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