Dell Opens Up About Desktop Linux

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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You fail for guessing the objection wrongly

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I've never had dpkg crap out and destroy the database of what's installed. I've never had dpkg lock up and cease functioning.

Being able to ask RPM difficult questions is a nice theoretical feature, but the user interface is so horrible I can't remember how to ask it simple questions; I resort to a cheat sheet with the incantations needed for simple everyday use.

I didn't say RPM lacked features; I said it was crap.