Well, it seems like Dell finally did it.
Dell and Canonical have officially announced the certification of Ubuntu on a select group of Dell laptops and desktops, and they will be offered with Ubuntu pre-installed.
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.”
I found this through an article on the Enterprise Linux Log » It’s official: Dell to offer certified, pre-installed Ubuntu Linux.
To me, it’s obvious that there are a whole lot of reasons why this is a good thing, both for the enterprise buyer and the home buyer.
Of course, there’s always the question…what’s next? :) In another article on ELL, Raven Zachary from 451 Group speculates (cause I don’t see any hard facts…but I hope he’s right :)
…said the news also meant users could expect an Ubuntu server offering
from Dell in the near future. “I think you will find Dell, over time,
also offering Ubuntu across its server product line as Ubuntu grows in
popularity in the data center,” he said.
BTW, it seems like the version that’ll be showing up on Dell HW is gonna be Feisty Fawn, aka, Ubuntu 7.04.
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Can you imagine? A linux laptop where everything works out of the box?!?
I shiver a little thinking about it!
Heck, I’ve installed linux on a lot of laptops over the past decade — some of them were even my daily drivers. But each one had some sort of battle that needed to be won (ok, 5+ years ago that was usually related to wifi… but still).
Dude, this would make me think about getting a Dell.
*cough* If you’d be so kind as to close that strong tag up there…
Yes, I can imagine such thing…I’ve done laptop installs at installfests where everything worked from first boot :)
Then again…I’ve also had to have multi-day wars with some laptops lol!
But yes…a 100% fully-functioning laptop with linux pre-installed sounds like a dream come true :)
Nope, I cannot. I like Linux, but I wouldn’t keep it as a primary OS on my laptop or desktop. If I need some Linux tools I boot my lappy from Knoppix (topns of useful stuff) and after that, I’m back to Windows.
Well…I’ve used linux as my only OS for a bit over 10 years now (formatted my HD and installed in august of 96) and the only thing I can’t do on linux as well as in windows *out of the stuff I do* is games…but that’s what the Xbox is for )
The one thing I haven’t been able to convert when it comes to my clients is CADing…there’s no decent AutoCAD substitute out there, at least none I’ve ever found, that professional CADers will accept.
Outside of that…there’s nothing that I can’t do better on linux than windows…specially when it comes to the network security work that is my main bread and butter.
I actually installed WinXP under vmware a few days ago, ’cause I wanted to test mt-daapd’s compatibility with iTunes for a client (who treats his employees like if they were his kids and wants to have a central mp3 repository so they don’t fill up all of his desktops with mp3s), and…I am still amazed that people can do actual useful stuff on that thing. Then again, I know I’m an atypical user, but still…user friendly? No way, not for me.
Hey, Toshiba is maybe doing the same thing?
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/05/03/toshiba-considers-installing-linux-on-notebooks/
It seems like they are actually considering it seriously, at least in Italy.
Toshiba makes good HW…nothing extraordinary, but good enough and cheap enough for most people, and if they go for linux pre-installed, it’d be a good thing :)
Thanks for the pointer to the article :)