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.
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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)
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.
Dell Computer is continuing to exapnd its support for Linux and open source platforms. We've reported on the company's work with Canonical to bring Ubuntu-based systems to both India and China, including an expansion of this effort. And, Dell just announced that it is delivering an Ubuntu laptop, part of its "Project Sputnik" effort, targeted at developers.
The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Pear Linux 5. In other news: Valve officially confirms Steam for Ubuntu; Ubuntu on Air! project was launched by Canonical; Dell announced that they will sell Dell XPS 13 laptops with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS this fall; Canonical introduced Ubuntu Web Apps. Softpedia Linux Blog news includes artic... (read more)
I will soon be purchasing a new laptop & currently the Dell Inspiron 17 is my favourite. I have been looking around for compatibility issues and it seems to be fine.
Today Dell announced its official re-entry into the Linux laptop market. Project Sputnik, first announced in May, is graduating from Dell’s internal incubator program into a real product. According to project lead Barton George, Dell will sell a special “developer edition” of its XPS13 Ultrabook starting this fall.
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I am considering buying one of the laptops Dell is offering for sale with Ubuntu pre installed.
I currently use Ubuntu on a Macbook Pro that belongs to my work, which will have to go back to my work soon as I am changing jobs!
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