No Dell for Novell
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2007-05-01 07:35:00 UTC
- Modified: 2007-05-01 07:38:24 UTC
Recently, Dell promised to
preinstall Linux on desktops and laptops. Several
speculations revolved around Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux while many people suggested that Novell's SLED was "enterprise ready". Despite all of this, Novell seems
very unlikely to get love from Michael Dell. The following reveals a lot.
According to our sources, Ubuntu will be released on a Dell e-series "Essential" Dimension desktop, an XPS desktop, and an e-series Inspiron laptop.
The e-series systems are budget-priced PCs that start at $408 without a monitor. The base systems come with 512MB of RAM and a 160GB SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) hard drive. It appears that Dell will only be offering Ubuntu on one of the two systems in this family. The E521 is powered by an AMD Sempron 3400+ chip and uses a NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE Integrated Graphics GPU (graphics processor unit) for graphics. The alternative, the E520, uses an Intel 2.8GHz Celeron D processor.
Comments
shane
2007-05-01 13:53:37
Congrats to the Ubuntu folks/Canonical, this is the holy grail for distros and a tremendous opportunity for Free Software and Linux.
Roy Schestowitz
2007-05-01 14:08:14
"How do I install Ubuntu 7.04 on my PC?"
Big URL from Dell :-)
Also noteworthy:
Dell casts doubts on Vista
k
2007-05-01 21:05:33
"In addition to Ubuntu, Dell also offers pre-installed Red Hat and Novell SUSE Linux on many of its server and desktop models."
Roy Schestowitz
2007-05-01 22:16:25
k
2007-05-02 05:15:41
Roy Schestowitz
2007-05-02 06:12:45