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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Member since:2005-07-06
Same here.
In my team, we have ~8 laptops: 7 came with Windows preinstalled (the last one without a pre-installed).
However, currently:
1: Windows 2K3.
3: Windows XP.
1: CentOS5.
3: Fedora Core 8.
In theory, by using the sales figure, my team has 87.5% Windows machines - while in reality, it's 50%/50%.
- Gilboa
Member since:
2006-04-18
Mark me down for one. I have a Dell desktop here at work that came with Vista pre-loaded and it's running CentOS 5. The only hassle has been the crappy ATI drivers in Linux, but they seem to be requred for dual-display.
It dual-boots Ubuntu as well, but I rarely use it since it doesn't seem like CentOS's idea of .gnome is compatible with Ubuntu's.