Dell Serious About Ubuntu: Launches First Consumer Linux PCs

[Guest]

Round Rock (TX) - Dell today flipped the switched and is now officially offering consumer desktop and notebook PCs with Ubuntu 8.

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[jeb1517]

Yes!

 

[3Ball]

I dont like dell, but I like what I just read. Very interesting.

Best,

3Ball

 

[joseph85]

Now if only more PC OEMs made more PCs with different flavors of GNU/Linux. Or better yet offered OSless PCs with only hardware being warrantied so the consumer has a real choice.
Also...
Let's hope Microshit doesn't pull out another SCO out've their hat.

 

[frozenlead]

If only it played games...

 

[vider]

Good news!

If DELL is doing it then others will follow as well.

 

[joseph85]

It does Frozenlead, they've even gotten Crysis running and all the steam developers have worked with the Wine project to the point that all Valve games are good to go. They even started implementing DX10.

 

[Rifte]

Didn't dell launch ubuntu pcs and laptops a year ago? Isnt this just upgrading there ubuntu lineup to hardy heron?

 

[Pei-chen]

I have installed Ubuntu 8.04 on three of my computers; one C2D, one Athlon X2 and one an old P3. The Ubuntu is slower than XP or Vista on all three of them by utilizing at least 25% of CPU resources.

 

[falchard]

Sweet. I get to pay almost the same for an underpowered laptop using a free OS.

 

[liemfukliang]

hahahahh My Dell Latitude D630 deep freezing when booting Ubuntu )

 

[Guest]

I don't understand why do they have to put an OS! I would buy a pc with no OS and then buy or download(linux) the os of my choice.

Pei-chen, I found that windows is slower on my machine, becouse I have to install anitvirus programs... with linux there is no need for antivirus!

 

[dmuir]

What do you mean "Dell today flipped the [sic] switched"?
As Rifte already mentioned, Dell has been offering Ubuntu on some of their machines for over a year now. It's good to hear that they'll be expanding their lineup soon though.

 

[TwoDigital]

I can't speak for XP, but running Ubuntu 8.04 on my HP (compaq) 6910p with 4gb RAM is significantly faster than the Vista Business Edition that it came with.

I for one would like to second the "why ship it with an OS?" question. If the big reason why they don't give a deeper discount for not having to install an OEM Windows is "due to the customization [and]... to take PCs off the production line"... I don't get it. Just put a post-it on the box saying, "Don't Ghost this one" and ship it blank.

I have a sneaking feeling these manufacturers get a kick-back from all the shareware junk they pre-install. Otherwise they could knock the Windows Vista OEM $120 off of the price, use the SAME hardware, and sell it to consumers for more than the $50 discount they offer today.