Dell Opens Up About Desktop Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday March 8, 2006 @01:56AM

An anonymous reader writes "Michael Dell explains his company's Linux desktop strategy in an interview at DesktopLinux.com. He says that it's not practical for Dell (the company) to support numerous distributions due to their incompatibilities, but that he doesn't want alienate large segements of the Linux community by selecting a favorite Linux distro to standardize on (Ubuntu appears to be his favorite, at the moment, by the way.) What he'd really like to see, is for the popular Linux distros to converge on a common core platform, according to the article."

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Re:I agree with Mr Dell by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-08 02:06 · Score: 5, Funny

You're free to make your own distro that will take 80% market share any time you like! Ahh the beauty of Linux!
Hey thats a good new idea! by malsdavis · 2006-03-08 02:18 · Score: 5, Funny

Why hasn't anyone thought of that before?

We could call it the Linux Standards Base or something like that.