Will Dell Be Bad For Ubuntu?

vcore writes "Many people are excited for Ubuntu's upcoming release on Dell computers, and while it is certainly good news there are a few causes for concern. Very few details have emerged so far so it is not completely clear what impact Dell with have on the thriving Ubuntu community. But there are questions concerning support, logistics, pricing, and a number of other areas that are affected. From the article: 'Dell is in the practice of filling their computers with large amounts of "bloatware" and also all sorts of co-branding, but it remains to be seen what they will do with Ubuntu. It has been reported that Dell will be shipping a standard version of Ubuntu 7.04...'"

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[aichpvee]

Remind me again how sudo is supposed to be safer than having a root account? Seems to me that it's going to be a LOT easier to compremise a user's account and then effortless to escalate to root using sudo than it would be to to directly attack the root account that in general will not be in use.

How is this anything other than the old security through obscurity argument, only even more poorly thought out?

Before you all go cheering this Dell deal as a "win" for "Linux" remember that it is, in fact, not a win for Linux. It is a win for Ubuntu (if even that), and is very well a loss for Linux in general. The prospect of a large (even relatively) number of new users coming to think that gnome is the "right" way to do things because they didn't know any better than to take what they were fed is also very disturbing.

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[aichpvee]

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