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Canonical and Dell Expand Ubuntu PC Partnership to India

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http://www.thevarguy.com – America may be the land of spacious skies and amber waves of grain, but what it doesn’t have is major retail stores selling PCs with Linux preloaded. To get those, you need to move to the “developing” world, as Canonical highlighted most recently with plans to sell Ubuntu computers built by Dell in India. Now, the question is: Will this trend ever take off elsewhere on the planet? Of course, as attentive observers of the open source channel will note, the deal involving Ubuntu PCs in India isn’t totally novel. Canonical began pursuing retail outlets as a vector for Ubun (IT news)

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Canonical and Dell announced that Dell laptops pre-loaded with Ubuntu will be sold in 850 retail outlets across India.

This initiative is similar to the campaign Canonical and Dell jointly launched to sell Ubuntu computers in about 220 stores in China.

Starting with June 21st, new Inspiron 14R and new Inspiron 15R will be available with Ubuntu pre-installed in India.

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On the same day as Microsoft announced its own foray into the hardware turf via its tablet computer called Surface, Dell has decided to launch personal computers in India loaded with Ubuntu.

Ubuntu, is a widely used Linux-based open source software and Dell India, along with Canonical Ltd., the UK-based owner, has decided to sell personal computers based on it

After announcing a collaboration with Canonical to sell laptops in 850 retail outlets across India, starting this Saturday, July 21st, Dell comes now with another major announcement related to Project Sputnik.

Remember Project Sputnik? Officially announced as an experiment in May this year, Project Sputnik was supposed to be an open s... (read more)

Il pronostico di Mark Shuttleworth di qualche tempo fa, sta cercando ulteriori conferme con la vendita di PC targati Ubuntu grazie alla partnership tra Dell e Canonical, che sta portando i nuovi laptop con Ubuntu preinstallato in ben 850 punti vendita dislocati in tutta l’India. L’operazione segue quella dello scorso ottobre avvenuta in Cina, in cui 220 (iniziali) negozi offrono la pos

As we've noted before, Canonical and giant PC maker Dell Computer have already found new horizons for Ubuntu in China in India. And, Dell deserves praise for being one of the few big hardware makers to offer Linux options on its computers over the years.

In what appears to be a growing penchant among open source developers for naming things after Soviet spacecraft, Canonical recently announced a new project called Mir.

The Ubuntu-powered laptop recently released by Dell’s Project Sputnik has generated a lot of buzz, especially in the open source community. Now, many Linux enthusiasts are hoping to see a continued expansion of Dell’s open source hardware lineup. And according to Project Sputnik lead Barton George, they may not be disappointed.

Canonical, and the open source Ubuntu operating system it sponsors, seem to be in the midst of a major watershed moment. In the past the Ubuntu world was a disparate one, but it is now finally converging around all types of devices. Whether that convergence succeeds will have a lot to do with the channel.

More than five years after it began selling PCs with Ubuntu Linux preinstalled in the United States, Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) has compiled a lackluster record in the eyes of many Linux advocates when it comes to promoting open source alternatives to Windows.