Michael Dell Using Ubuntu Linux At Home

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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Same here

[Nik13]

I doubt I could even get by with "just" 5!

-Server box: NAT/Firewall/P2P (bittorent/emule mostly), IIS, Apache, SQL Server Express, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc. Also acts as a media server (4TB storage currently, mostly mpeg4 files and some mp3s). Also used for VMWare Server. Has X10 controller connected to it too (to command some modules). Shares laser printer too.

-HTPC. HDTV Tuner and DVB card. Plays videos (stored on the server) and PVRs stuff. Connects to HDTV. Recently added a XBOX's HD DVD drive for HD DVDs.

-Gaming box w/ fast video card and all. 'nuff said (not counting consoles: XBOX, PS2, XBOX360 and a Wii as of last week)

-Family PC. Encarta, Office, surf web (check email, youtube, google maps, wikipedia, check recipes, etc), play mp3's and "refill" mp3 players, etc. Used to be the gaming box, but people were fighting for it... Sometimes watch movies on it (when someone else is watching another one on the HDTV) - it has a nice 5.1 speaker set and half decent 19" monitor so it's OK.

-Programming box. Visual Studio 2005. Eclipse. All the usual stuff. Plus various embedded/electronics dev stuff and associated hardware (lots of rs232/interfacing stuff, an eprom programmer, pic/avr programmers, etc). Also serves as my main box for photo raw processing/pano stitching/retouching/tagging/sorting work (2 nice monitors, wacom tablet, nikon coolscan, etc).

-Laptop. Used while outside or traveling (empty the 2 cameras' SD/CF memory cards and check photos, backup on CDs, play mp3's and movies in hotels, surf web, etc). The kids often use it to watch movies on long car rides too (2 Extra batteries!) At home used to check recipes and play mp3's in the kitchen (for whoever is cooking) or as a picture frame of sorts (photo slideshow).

-Workstation. Somewhat of a "ghetto" box. Used to install all these tiny apps that one only seems to use once (often trials), and that can screw up your box (I keep a ghosted baseline image handy). Used to test things out. Used a lot to reencode videos (DVDs, DVB rips, etc) in mpeg4 to put on the media server, keeping it busy for hours at a time.

-Linux box. Mostly to toy around with Linux. Asterisk, LAMP stack, and a couple other things. Perhaps that's the only box I wouldn't mind getting rid of as it hardly ever gets used (the only things I ever seem to do with it these days is updating it)

Then there's the work laptop (must use theirs to VPN in, can't use home PC -- same story).