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Michael Dell Using Ubuntu Linux At Home

Posted by kdawson on from the hmmmm dept.

whoever57 sends us a link from the Dell site noting that Michael Dell is using Ubuntu Linux at home (7.04, Feisty Fawn) on a Precision M90 laptop loaded with Openoffice.org and Evolution. If one were betting on which distro Dell will eventually ship pre-installed, this factoid might be food for thought. Oh, and Micheal Dell's gaming system uses XP Media Center edition.

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  1. Oh Boy by pembo13 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Now we'll never hear the end of the "Ubuntu Rocks" guys

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    "Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
  2. Re:mikey likes it... by katsklaw · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't care what things are called in other countries, there are millions of instances where dialect dictates differences. I've been in the IT field for many many years (to give you a hint, Mac OS 5 was mainstream) and OS X has been acceptably pronounced 'oh ess ecks' as well as 'oh ess ten', to be honest I've even heard 'awes ecks' and 'Microsoft awes' instead of 'oh ess'. So long as you understand the persons meaning, who cares? Simple semantics and fodder for grammar nazis.

    To whomever labled my reply as 'flamebait' completely misunderstood me. I was simply pointing out that differences in dialect are prefectly acceptable.