The moment we’ve all been waiting for! Dell has started selling Ubuntu computers!
Starting from today, you can buy a Dimension E520 N ($599), XPS 410 N ($849) or Inspiron E1505 N laptop ($599) with pre-installed Ubuntu 7.04! Unfortunately, these Ubuntu machines are now only available in the USA so the rest of the world will [...]
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The Direct2Dell blog has more technical details on Dell’s upcoming Ubuntu offer.
Ubuntu will be pre-installed with all hardware working on opensource drivers but proprietary drivers will be present where necessary.
Currently, there will be no proprietary media codecs present but Dell is looking at how they can support this in the future.
Yay Dell!
A Dell employee has given more information about what models will be available with Ubuntu 7.04.
From the email the employee sent Jeremy it seems that Ubuntu will be available as operating system choice when customizing the product:
The goal of launching Linux is to continue to give our customers more choices to customize their new Dell.
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According to this article over at DesktopLinux.com, Dell is going to be selling computers preinstalled with Ubuntu.
Starting at the end of May this year, Dell will be offering Ubuntu 7.04 on it’s e-series “Essential” Dimension desktop, an XPS desktop, and an e-series Inspiron laptop.
While there has been no official announcement from Dell, sources inside Dell [...]
According to this article at www.techworld.com, Microsoft will be releasing parts of it’s upcoming Silverlight technology as open source.
A move that is no doubt made in response to Adobe’s opensourcing of the Flex SDK, Microsoft hopes to attract more developers for Silverlight this way.