| Art Alexion on 14 Mar 2010 06:00:15 -0700 |
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On Saturday 13 March 2010 19:39:54 jim fisher wrote: > > On 3/13/10, Art Alexion <arthur@alexion.com> wrote: > > On Friday 12 March 2010 16:05:55 Conor Schaefer wrote: > >> Not too sound like The Man, but Dell has been offering Ubuntu for years > >> now, and I think buying a machine through them would very much be voting > >> with dollars. Of course, I myself would rather buy from a dedicated > >> Linux vendor such as System76, but if you're looking for familiar > >> decent (i.e. not great, like System76 often has) hardware, then Dell is > >> your place. > > > > IIRC, Dell discontinued their Linux preinstalls. > uh, no. > > http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s > =dhs My mistake. I scan the linux-desktops Dell list from time to time and that was the concern there a couple of months ago. That said, why is Dell still selling notebooks with Ubuntu 9.04 when 9.10 has been out for 5 months and 10.04 will soon be released? I can see selling 8.04 because that is a long term supported release, but 9.04 has already gone through 11 of its 18 months of support. My employer is also a Dell shop and they have been on my sh*t list lately. I guess I am not in the mood for hearing anything positive about Dell these days. ;-) -- Art Alexion Attachment:
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