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Dell might ship Ubuntu 10.10
TIN BOX FLOGGER Dell is rumoured to have plans to preload Canonical's Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition on netbooks.
Apparently Taiwanese hardware manufactures are collectively betting that Dell is going to be first to market with Ubuntu 10.10 on its netbooks. According to Digitimes, we'll be seeing Canonical's consumer friendly Ubuntu 10.10 Linux flavoured Dell netbooks shipping within a month.
Do the odds stack up? Mostly, yes. As Digitimes pointed out, Dell is the biggest supplier of pre-installed Ubuntu PCs and laptops in the world. Dell has, as they say, Canonical's back. The INQUIRER reported in June that Dell had so much faith in the open source Linux distro that it said it was safer than Windows. Laugh you might at the mention that something is safer than Windows, but that was a public disclosure on its own website from one of the world's biggest hardware vendors about one of the world's biggest software houses.
We also reported that Dell had been cosying up to open source since bundling Ubuntu on selected PCs since 2007. The company claimed on the same webpage that it "has shipped more computers pre-loaded and pre-tested with Ubuntu than any other computer maker in the world".
Now take Canonical's focus on making Ubuntu 10.10 a consumer friendly OS for mass-market consumption. Only last week the INQUIRER reported that Ubuntu is a fully-fledged mass-market alternative to the Vole's Windows 7 and Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
All Canonical needs is the right distribution channel to get Ubuntu 10.10 out to market in volume. The only larger and perhaps better PC hardware partner than Dell for that job might be HP.
We contacted both Canonical and Dell's PR office and have only had a reply from the Ubuntu team so far.
"We are a supplier to and partner of Dell as we are to a number of OEMs for a wide range of products, but we do not comment on their future product plans," said Gerry Carr, head of platform marketing at Canonical. µ
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Hi Dell,
If you are going to be first to market with Ubuntu 10.10 on your notebooks, I am going to be the first to buy a one.
I am wainting for you. Don't be late!
Of course an Ubuntu PC will cost more than one that comes with Windows and all the bloated crapware/trials that come from Dell and it's "partners".
Why the F do you think you can buy a name brand PC like Dell for less the the sum of the cost of all its parts? That crapware is why! Without it, the consumer pays the TRUE cost of the machine. Wow what a surprise for anyone with half a brain!
i called many times to dell asking for ubuntu pc's, and always the same response: "we will callyou soon", and they never called me again.
Also its imposible to buy a ubuntu pc from the website and are more expensive.
Shame on you Dell
This will either not happen, the price on the Ubuntu machines will be higher, or it will be nearly impossible to find where to purchase them.
It's simple really - they can't sell the bloatware they bundle with windows on the Linux machines. It's pretty much the same stuff that killed it before.
So as much as people would like it to happen offering Ubuntu is probably more of an exercise in good PR for Dell.
The only reason I need windows in for netflix and some games. I have decoded computers for these but I prefer Ubuntu for internet and all other apps.
Windows starter really sucks, I even seen but why pay for a incomplete system when Linux far better(in my opinion) and is free. I LOVE NOT HAVING TO PAY FOR WINDOWS WHEN I AM NOT GOING TO USE IT!!!!
I hope dell does this, especially since there not including the os on a cd.
Linux runs so much faster and even more so on low power cpu's.