Ubuntu on Dell XPS isn't News
Category
CNet posts that Dell is offering Ubuntu for the premier XPS series of laptops. It's not really news. After all, I've been using the XPS 1330 set up for about six months (the XPS 13 is a little different, in that it has fashionable leather trim), and a few weeks back, I listened to a podcast interview of Mark Shuttleworth who answered the question about what he uses as a laptop: "XPS 1330."
What is news with Dell and Ubuntu, is that it's no longer a footnoted secret. Dell is even pushing Ubuntu to the Education market with the Latitude 2100N.
Even John Dvorak, who can be a curmudgeon on Linux implenations, is warming up to Ubuntu:
It's really interesting to watch the gravity of TCO drive a disruptive technology forward into the work place.
CNet posts that Dell is offering Ubuntu for the premier XPS series of laptops. It's not really news. After all, I've been using the XPS 1330 set up for about six months (the XPS 13 is a little different, in that it has fashionable leather trim), and a few weeks back, I listened to a podcast interview of Mark Shuttleworth who answered the question about what he uses as a laptop: "XPS 1330."
What is news with Dell and Ubuntu, is that it's no longer a footnoted secret. Dell is even pushing Ubuntu to the Education market with the Latitude 2100N.
Portable, powerful, and Linux: the Dell Latitude 2100-N makes a great netbook for students and workers on the go.
Even John Dvorak, who can be a curmudgeon on Linux implenations, is warming up to Ubuntu:
The more I use the free Linux distros out there, mainly Ubuntu, and combine that with free word processors that are essentially clones of MS-Word 2003, the more I wonder why people would pay hundreds of dollars for the Microsoft products when the functionality is nearly identical.
While nobody believes that Ubuntu is the best of breed as an operating system or that AbiWord is as good as Word, the differences are not worth the added expense to most users.
It's really interesting to watch the gravity of TCO drive a disruptive technology forward into the work place.
- 
