Ubuntu Dell Now In UK, France, and Germany
mrcgran writes "Dell announced the availability of Ubuntu in Europe and future plans for China. 'I hinted at this before, but today, it's official: Dell announced that consumers in the United Kingdom, France and Germany can order an Inspiron 6400 notebook or an Inspiron 530N desktop with Ubuntu 7.04 pre-installed... In his LinuxWorld keynote, Kevin Kettler announced that Dell and Novell intend to offer SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 factory-installed on select consumer notebooks and desktops in China.'"
Speaking for myself only, I'd like to see Linux get wider adoption but not become some kind of corporate product. Large corporations tend to take grassroots ideas and turn them into the Same Old Thing by applying the same old metrics to them, in short, in doing what corporations do. Remember how blogs used to be an alternative form of media, and now every newspaper is a blog and every blog links to a newspaper? Hint: it's not the guys in front of the screen, but the guys behind the screen that you must pay attention to.
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