Linux Rolls On

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orlando — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:16:35 GMT

Hi, i'm from Argentina. I'm planning to purchase a notebook for home-use. I use Ubuntu at my home desktop PC.

Could you give me some estimate about when do you plan to sell Dell notebooks with Ubuntu here in Argentina?

Thanks in advance.

Orlando

Linux for Consumers in the U.K. France, and Germany; Dell/Red Hat Solutions & More

Direct2Dell — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:18:28 GMT

I hinted at this before , but today, it's official: Dell announced that consumers in the United Kingdom,

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Matt_Domsch_blog — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:37:46 GMT

While there are a few videos on studiodell.com that haven't been converted, nearly all have, and the plan is to post them in OGG format from now on.

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flash challenged — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:38:55 GMT

Attempts to install gnash lead to dependency hell and I refuse to install the flash player for very good reasons I won't get into here.

Somewhere I read that Dell would have all of its multimedia in simple ogg formats (vorbis, theora, etc.) If so, where can I view this? If not, why did you change your mind? When I read you would be converting your media files I finally felt - 'Well what do you know, maybe Dell really does want to be genuinely responsive to the community!'

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B Knotts — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:43:00 GMT

I'm glad to hear that Dell Ubuntu computers will be offered to small business users. I will be purchasing same in the near future.

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Rolo — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 00:47:11 GMT

Folks at Dell,
is there gonna be other Inspiron models running Ubuntu as well? What about Dell XPS 1330? This would be a bueaty have Linux running on this machine. Rolo.

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Cédric Brancourt — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:46:28 GMT

It's a great thing ! For users , and for me !

I'am the Simple System's head. ( A french Open source software service provider ). As we work hand by hand with proxyconnect to provide installation and support over Dell's product ( still windows in france :( ), we will be nearly able to do what we are born to ( services over Linux ).

I hope we will have a lot of support task to do for Dell's linux system.

Thank You Dell !

Best Regards

Cédric

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Mark — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:14:40 GMT

>> Not quite. While you can run Firefox on Windows, it's the predominant browser on Linux. <<

No doubt. The point I was hinting at, though, is that having a Linux strategy should have nothing to do with how well a website works with Firefox (or, for that matter, any other browser). That's not to say that somebody shouldn't be making sure that the site works well with Firefox (because it should), but it shouldn't (IMHO) have anything at all to do with a Linux strategy.

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Supporter — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:12:31 GMT

About that 225$ discount for the Vista box:

Has anybody even considered that Dell might have stuff/licenses on the shelves that they need to get rid off? If you look at Vista reviews and reputation by now, its not too surprising they're giving fat discounts to get the crap sold.

And RAM price fluctuation makes a good gamble for any OEM anyway, has always been this way, will always be that way, so if you're as an OEM get a good RAM price offer, you wanna get rid of your old stock quickly, what better way to use it for discounts?

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Aaron Digulla — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:48:27 GMT

I've been toying with the idea to buy a Linux notebook for some time, now. Since you don't sell Linux in Switzerland, yet, I was wondering if I can simply buy the same model you sell with Linux in the US and install Linux myself. Or are these models somehow modified for Linux (hardward, drivers)?