On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:21:22 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
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>Why I Don't Want a Laptop That Can Run Linux
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>| So at home, do I want a laptop that can work with Linux?
>|
>| No.
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>| I'm interested in one that does. Flawlessly.
>|
>| [...]
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>| You could get a One Hundred would be from a Linux OEM. System76 has
>| shipped Ubuntu One Hundred?s for a while. Dell recently announced
>| laptops that shipped with Ubuntu, but have had problems with their
>| first round of Linux hardware.
>|
>| But in 2007, after a solid decade of interest in Linux on the
>| desktop, decent companies paying people to write open source
>| drivers, there quite a few systems you can buy off the shelf
>| that aren?t designed to work Linux, but which, when you pop a
>| Linux distro on, reveal themselves as One Hundreds.
>|
>| I just bought one.
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>http://www.venturecake.com/?p=1#more-1
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>Recent:
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>I got my Ubuntu pre-installed Dell E520N today!!
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>| The bottom line so far is that I'm very pleased with the value I g
>| ot with this machine. My first evening of use has been very
>| satisfying. With the dual core processor and gig of RAM it's
>| very, very smooth and quick. Note that I purposefully didn't
>| do anything that required the command line. It's been a good experience.
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>http://technocrat.net/d/2007/6/1/20868
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>Ubuntu Linux on my Dell XPS M1210
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>| What I love most about Ubuntu on Dell is the lack of crappy
>| 3rd party software that is typically shipped with their
>| computers. When I bought Dell's in the past I'd basically
>| strip the entire hard drive and do a fresh Windows install
>| so I wouldn't have all those extra programs on my computer
>| which I'd never use. To tell you the truth Ubuntu already
>| comes with too much stuff for my tastes but it's really
>| easy to uninstall unwanted applications in this OS.
>|
>| Just remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it's likely available via
>| open-source.
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>http://www.planetc1.com/cgi-bin/n/v.cgi?c=1&id=1180636878
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>Review of Dell XPS 410n with Ubuntu Feisty preinstalled
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>| I received my XPS with Ubuntu today. The first thing I will say is
>| that when the Fedex guy delivered it he asked if Dell was having some
>| kind of liquidation sale because he has delivered more Dells today
>| than ever before. He told me that he had already delivered five and
>| there were eleven more on the truck. (Just throwing that out there.)
>|
>| [...]
>|
>| I think Dell has done a good thing with this system. They obviously
>| made an effort with resolution detection (which was going to be sore
>| no matter what) and did an excellent job of keeping those crapware
>| leeches off the system.
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>http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2764621#post2764621
If these stories are true, its very encouraging. Would love to see the
sales stats after a couple of months. Backing from large companies
like Dell may be a real feather in the cap for Linux advocates...but
beware the snake in the grass.
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