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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RE: Timing
by gilboa on Fri 18th Apr 2008 05:12 UTC in reply to "Timing"
gilboa
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Huh?!?!?

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RE[2]: Timing
by lemur2 on Fri 18th Apr 2008 06:12 in reply to "RE: Timing"
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2007-02-17

"Dell Desktop sales are growing but the two big linux encumbants are bailing on the Desktop...


Huh?!?!? "

Well, one incumbent probably being referred to is Red Hat:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/17/red_hat_abandons_consumer_d...
http://www.osnews.com/story/19647/Red_Hats_Plans_on_the_Desktop

Perhaps Novell was meant as the other?

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3741476/Novell+The...
http://www.osnews.com/story/19648/Novell:_The_Standalone_OS_Is_Dead

It was probably a fair enogh comment, actually ...

The only thing to note is that Dell installs Ubuntu on desktops ... and RedHat on servers, I believe.

Edited 2008-04-18 06:19 UTC

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RE[3]: Timing
by gilboa on Fri 18th Apr 2008 10:12 in reply to "RE[2]: Timing"
gilboa Member since:
2005-07-06

Well, one incumbent probably being referred to is Red Hat:


You mean, this [1] RedHat?

- Gilboa
[1] http://www.osnews.com/story/19647/Red_Hats_Plans_on_the_Desktop

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