Dell to Offer More Linux PCs

head_dunce writes "According to this article, Mark Shuttleworth from the Ubuntu camp says Dell is seeing a demand for the Linux-based PC and, "There are additional offerings in the pipeline." I'm starting to see flashbacks of the days when Microsoft partnered up with IBM to gain control of the desktop market. Will other Linux flavors find their way to the likes of Lenovo or HP, etc, or will Ubuntu claim the desktop market working with other PC manufacturers?"

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Dell ad dream

[G3ckoG33k]

The best Ubuntu ad, ever http://quarkblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/ub untu.jpg Would Dell dare it? I? I dream on...

IMO

[thatskinnyguy]

"...or will Ubuntu claim the desktop market working with other PC manufacturers?"

I hope not. Ubuntu may be good for some, but I found it to be relatively useless once I got past the eye candy.

Microsoft Monopoly

[Anonymous Coward]

Sure sounds like a Monopoly going on with Microsoft. With this article and Macs now being on normal PC hardware and having their own OS, liberals can now STFU about Microsoft being such a huge monopoly now.

M$ is worried and starting to eliminate XP.

[twitter]

M$ Fanboy dedazo ignorantly imagines another seven years of XP:

You mean when "M$" stops supporting it in 2014, or are you referring to something else?

Why anyone would want to run XP as a primary OS today is hard to fathom, but M$ is not going to help you do it for the next seven years. Have a look at talk like this:

Michael Cherry, analyst with Directions at Microsoft, ... It's possible, Cherry added, that Microsoft might find itself forced to recognise more reality in the future. "At some point, they might have to consider [further] limiting the availability of XP," to push people to Vista.

XP does not make enough money to support the M$ monopoly so it's going to get the axe.

Re:there are forces working against further adopti

[Anonymous Coward]

Writing "w/" instead of "with" is an irritating habit which will lead most people to to suspect that you are an idiot.

Vista Has Failed, M$ Monopoly is Over.

[twitter]

Um, Dell selling more Linux PCs is not the same as Dell saying Vista has failed.

Dell selling gnu/linux shows that M$ has lost it's ability to coerce vendors and that's a very good indicator of Vista's failure, if Acer's announcement was not enough for you. M$'s coercive ability used to come from profits, if Dell could profit from Vista, they would. Without vendor support, the M$ monopoly is over. They can advertise until they have spent every penny of their billions, but that won't fix Vista's bugs or make it sell when gnu/linux works better. Vendors are going to sell what works and makes them money. Good night and good riddance, M$.