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Dell and Ubuntu, sitting in a tree, etc.

Posted at 12:26:44 on Tue, August 07th 2007 by graham
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The news just came through that Dell have officially unveiled two systems available in Europe (including the UK) with Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) installed on them. This is very cool, and represents another step along the road to fixing bug #1. From the press release (ubuntu.com):

Dell today unveiled two consumer PCs in Europe – the Inspiron 6400n and the Inspiron 530n – with the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux operating system factory installed. Available now in the United Kingdom, Germany and France, the systems are Dell’s first steps to meet the needs of the Linux enthusiast community outside of the United States.

Information about the systems can be found in the following locations:

General information: www.ubuntu.com/dell
In France (from August 8th): www.dell.fr/ubuntu
In Germany (from August 8th): www.dell.de/ubuntu
In the United Kingdom (from August 8th): www.dell.co.uk/ubuntu

[The Disclosure Bit]

I am an employee of Canonical, the company that supports and backs Ubuntu. Yes, Canonical is the really-cool-company I've mentioned. I work as part of the Launchpad development team. So now you know.

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Dell to offer Ubuntu on its systems

Posted at 18:57:07 on Tue, May 01st 2007 by graham
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Well, it's about time, frankly. Via the BBC :

Computer maker Dell has chosen Ubuntu as the operating system for its range of Linux computers for consumers.

This makes me happy for a lot of reasons. For one, it's Ubuntu, which I use all the time and on whatever systems I can and second - and probably more importantly - it means that someone is offering Ubuntu as a no-effort-to-install system to consumers, which rocks my socks off.

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Graham Binns is a writer, photographer, musician and software developer from Lancaster, England, with far too much hair, a penchant for odd t-shirts and a magnificent hat. He has been making things up for as long as he can remember and has been making code work for long enough to make a living from it.

He has written one novel, which is in the process of composting, and is working remembering how to write before embarking on a second. In the meantime, he photographs things, since it's easier not to have to make the world up in his head all of the time.