Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st May 2007 13:08 UTC, submitted by Jack
After yesterday's unconfirmed rumour about Ubuntu being pre-installed on Dell machines, it has now become official. In a joint statement released today, Dell and Canonical 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." Update: Ubuntu Linux 7.04 Feisty Fawn review by Extremetech.
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Ah, but don't count your chickens before they've hatched. We shall have to see about that. I don't see what would stop Dell from including crapware on a Linux laptop.
Which brings us to an even more interesting point: the possibility of introducing spyware and crapware to Linux for the first time, on a big scale. It could bomb in many various ways. Consider the fact there's currently no anti-spyware tool for Linux; I don't WANT there to be even a need for such a tool, ever, but you just watch various nay-sayers scream about how Linux is just so "insecure" over it.
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I doubt it will be that much cheaper. As has been reported many times previously, the OEM rate for Windows is very low and most or all of it is offset by the "crapware" loaded on it. If you add to this the investment they have to put in in testing and altering hardware, training people for the linux install, it will possibly be more expensive (at least initially). But there are two optimistic scenarios (a) they decide not to pass everything onto the consumer and just treat their costs as an investment to get into a new market (b) they might find crapware to install on these machines just like any Windows machine e.g. something like the Google pack deal or Real Player should be happy to get on. Which means some of us might have to spend some time getting rid of junk but at least we will get cheaper machines.