April 19th, 2007

Linux Tux on Dell LaptopThe pre-installed Linux on Dell Inc’s notebook and desktop computers may be coming before the end of April, DesktopLinux’s sources say.

“We still do not know which Linux Dell Inc. will be installing on its desktops and laptops. Among the distributions we know to be under consideration are: Novell/SUSE, Red Hat, Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu. It would be safe to say now, though, that Ubuntu will be at least one of the Linuxes that Dell will be offering,” DesktopLinux claims.

The web-site also reports Michael S. Dell, president and CEO of Dell Inc, uses Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Linux operating system on his personal Precision M90 notebook computer. Along with the latest Ubuntu version, released this week, Dell uses software such as VMWare Workstation 6 Beta, and OpenOffice.org 2.2, Automatix2, Firefox 2.0.0.3 and Evolution Groupware 2.10, according to his biography.

Dell Inc. has confirmed last month it will offer laptop and desktop computers with factory installed Linux operating system, after the thousands of company’s IdeaStorm Blog visitors voted for that idea.

Correction: After the comments on this item we have replaced in third paragraph “…Dell uses open source software such as VMWare Workstation 6 Beta…” with “…Dell uses software such as VMWare Workstation 6 Beta…”. Sorry for this mistake. Thank You very much.

In Laptop News, Dell Inspiron, Dell Latitude, Dell Precision, Dell XPS Laptops, Linux & Laptops, Software
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matt Says:

VMWare is NOT open source

April 19th, 2007 at 11:44 pm |
Anonymous Says:

What a clanger!

VMware is NOT open source!!

April 20th, 2007 at 7:59 am |
ole Says:

“source software such as VMWare Workstation 6″ VMWare is _very_ not open source.

April 20th, 2007 at 9:00 am |
Eve Says:

Dell going to offer Ubuntu on the Inspiron 6400. I got this news from a friend who working in Dell Inc.

April 20th, 2007 at 9:42 am |
mathias erdtmann Says:

NOTE: VMWare Workstation 6 Beta is free, but not open source.

April 20th, 2007 at 12:38 pm |

VMWare Workstation is neither open source nor free software, and DesktopLinux never claimed that. Perhaps you should update the article :)

April 20th, 2007 at 1:09 pm |

Vmware is not even close to opensource software. The fact that it runs on Linux doesn’t say anything about it’s development model!

April 20th, 2007 at 2:46 pm |
imaad Says:

can u get both windows xp and linux?

just some programs work on windows and not on linux!

April 20th, 2007 at 7:28 pm |

Yeah that would be cool if you could get it preconfigured to dual boot.

April 28th, 2007 at 6:14 pm |

[…] DesktopLinux has reported earlier the pre-installed Linux on Dell Inc’s notebook and desktop computers may be coming before the end of April, but yesterday’s report says it will be in late May. In March, the computer maker announced its Linux PC offer, but it wasn’t specified which Linux distribution will be used. […]

May 1st, 2007 at 3:00 pm |
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