Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 17th Apr 2008 16:23 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
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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2007-08-06
I've 2 Dell laptops OEM'd with Windows XP and both are dual-boot now. And I hardly recall moment when I last booted XP. And the last Dell Optiplex desktop was bought without any OS (XP OEM licence was removed by vendor and cost deducted from the invoice).
And all the boxes are mix of Debian Etch or Lenny. I'm happy and I've never looked back.
And tens of servers at work are Debian anyway
Edit:
One Dell laptop is 5 years old and runs modern OS like Debian Lenny without trouble (untweaked). So... not much need for costly hardware upgrades. Would one achieve the same with Vista?
Edited 2008-04-17 17:24 UTC