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

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

Bob — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:06:29 GMT

Not sure what all the fuss is about. ubuntu and Fedora can be downloaded from anywhere in the world.

Dell sent me a inspiron 530, and I scrapped Windows Vista and loaded the newest Ubuntu with a little work, then overwrote that with Red Hat 4 as to match the other computer in our labs. If you have trouble, there is a nice faq at FedoraForum.org-just search Redhat and Inspiron 530.

The monitor works great, but the only thing to work out is a driver for the se198wfp monitor to get the best resolution, but I'm sure someone somewher has worked it out.

Seems like the primary issue is getting the hardware you want and then worrying about the operating system. Rest assured Ubuntu and Fedora do work on this system-even if DELL is not in the mood to put in on ther for many countries.

Denver, CO, USA

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

yesmathew — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:10:30 GMT

More reasons to introduce Ubuntu in Switzerland... and I think this is the right time...

9000 computers in Swiss schools have been dual-booting Windows and and Ubuntu for some time now in anticipation of guidelines from the Switzerland’s Department of Public Instruction, whose motto is “Long Live Free Software.” The Tribune de Geneve featured a story on Friday about the elimination of dual boot capabilities in all of these machines and a migration exclusively to Linux (the original story is available here in French or here in English courtesy of Google’s language tools).

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

hretyc — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:23:31 GMT

I just learned from http://www.tomshardware.com/de/ that Dell sells the great laptop 'XPS M1330' with GNU/Linux pre-installed in Germany now!

This is exactly the hardware I consider to buy this year.

Question: Does hibernate and suspend work without problems?
If so then it's a very likely purchase I'll make.

Sadly, when I compare the prices of the following hardware configuration, currently the 'XPS M1330' with Windows Vista™ Home Premium (32 Bit) pre-installed is 400€ less expensive than the same hardware with Ubuntu Linux version 7.10 only:

Configuration:

CPU: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Prozessor T7500 (2.20 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 4 MB L2-cache) - N-Series

Display: 13,3" UltraSharp™ WXGA (1280x800) White-LED-Display (300 cd/m²), TrueLife™

RAM: 3072 MB 667 MHz Dual-Channel DDR2 SDRAM [1x2048+1x1024]

Hard-disk: SATA-Festplatte mit 250 GB (5.400 U/Min.)

Graphics-card: nVidia® GeForce® 8400M GS mit 128 MB

Battery: Lithium-Ionen-Hauptakku mit 9 Zellen und 85 Wh

Bluetooth: Internes Dell™ TrueMobile 355 Bluetooth-Modul - Europa

Prices:

XPS™ M1330 (N01X3304): 1.208,99 € (with additional fingerprint-reader, next-generation Intel® Wireless-N-Minikarte and free shipping too!)

Linux XPS™ M1330 (N01X3315): 1.606,99 € (without fingerprint-reader, plain Intel® Pro Wireless 3945 802.11a/b/g-Minikarte and I don't know if shipping costs are demanded, if so then + 39 €)

This should be corrected soon since with slightly less (current) hardware and without license costs for Microsoft Windows the Linux-version should be cheaper!

And last but not least: Don't forget other countries than Germany ...

Cheers,

hretyc

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

Andrea Pagano — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:55:37 GMT

Italy, please......

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

Andres Mujica — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:27:20 GMT

Hi any plans to extend this offer to LATAM, in my case Colombia? i'm about to purchase a laptop and i DO want to buy it with ubuntu from you guys, but it seems is not possible.

any news on this??

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

Ajo Paul — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:59:57 GMT

Although with some tweaking its possible to install Ubuntu on 1520 as I read, it would be great to know If Fully loaded and preconfigured Gutsy gibbon is released for the Dell users of INDIA. Waiting for such a announcement.

Cheers Dellubuntu!

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

Daniel — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:45:55 GMT

First I'd like to say "yay!". I'm very glad that Dell+Ubuntu is now available in Europe. While I'd like to add a vote for "Canada next", I have to say that releasing in Europe before Canada is a very sensible thing to do. France, the UK and especially Germany all have a lot more Linux users than Canada. It's a matter of both population and Linux just being more popular in Europe, especially Germany.

With that said, could you please do Canada next? My kid brother's Ubuntu computer is very old by now and I'm keen to buy him a new one from Dell. I also hope that my next computer will be a Dell with Ubuntu pre-installed.

Another note: The European systems don't seem to include a support option from Canonical.

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

Stingray — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:02:54 GMT

What about Ireland, please?
Will it be too hard to extend UK offer here?

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

john — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:29:57 GMT

when will we be able to get some dell linux desktops here in australia. i am on the market for one.

Please dell !

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

SDOUGOS EVANGELOS — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:14:36 GMT

First we want Dell (with Linux) in GREECE.

Second Lower Price.

Third better hardware and webcam on notebooks.

Thanks.