Dell to Sell Machines with Ubuntu Pre-Loaded

kotj.mf writes "Cnet is reporting that Dell will shortly announce a partnership with Canonical to offer Ubuntu pre-loaded on certain consumer-oriented desktops and notebooks. The announcement comes after a groundswell of support for pre-installed Linux on Dell's IdeaStorm site. 'The company is starting its business by trying to appeal to users of desktop computers. From there, Canonical Chief Executive Mark Shuttleworth has said, the company plans to head to the server market, where the real Linux bread and butter can be found. [Dell spokesman Kent] Cook wouldn't comment on whether Dell plans to offer Ubuntu on its servers as well.'."

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Re:Slashdot and the General Population.

[Chandon Seldon]

It's "Linux", BTW. Most of us don't agree with Stallman's arguments about naming conventions.

How can you possibly be that big a jerk? The GNU Project spent years developing the majority of operating system you're using, and you can't even accept other people giving them credit? I mean, it's not like "Linux" would be much of an OS without GNU libc...