Comments on: DesktopLinux: Dell’s Linux PCs Coming This Month

By: SPSteve

SPSteve — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:51:33 +0000

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find any decent drivers for my M6300 for Fedora9.

I work in a Microsoft World, meaning I need to RDP into Win 2003 servers and XP Machines to do anything productive.

This proves to be an issue because there is no acceptable software to RDP into a windows machine.

Not a heartstop, but without any drivers to enable desktop effects on a Quadro FX 1600 M, I’m left with a vanilla install of Fedora.

Using Ubuntu, it would in the past download the non free driver for the video card, but as of this week, that is no longer possible.

I would LOVE to move to Fedora, and would prefer to stay away from Ubuntu if possible, but it doesn’t look like it will be an option any time soon.

By: Dell Inc. to Choose Ubuntu Linux

Dell Inc. to Choose Ubuntu Linux — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:00:15 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: Motorcycle Guy

Motorcycle Guy — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:14:51 +0000

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

By: imaad

imaad — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:28:08 +0000

can u get both windows xp and linux?

just some programs work on windows and not on linux!

By: Linux Torvalds

Linux Torvalds — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:46:40 +0000

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

By: mathias erdtmann

mathias erdtmann — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:38:09 +0000

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

By: Ramon Cahenzli

Ramon Cahenzli — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:09:43 +0000

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

By: Eve

Eve — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:42:00 +0000

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

By: ole

ole — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:00:54 +0000

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

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:59:06 +0000

What a clanger!

VMware is NOT open source!!

By: matt

matt — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:44:06 +0000

VMWare is NOT open source