Shop for Dell PCs featuring Ubuntu Linux
Last month Dell announced their partnership with Ubuntu, now finally the first batch of PCs featuring preloaded Ubuntu Linux is being sold at Dell’s Open site. So, let’s look at what they are offering? Currently they have 2 desktop PCs and 1 laptop. Desktop configurations as follows:
Dimension E520 N - $599
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E4300 (1.8GHz, 800 FSB)
Ubuntu Desktop Edition version 7.04
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs
250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
XPS 410 N - $849
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor E4300 (2MB L2 Cache,1.8GHz,800FSB)
Ubuntu Desktop Edition version 7.04
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 2 DIMMs
250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
and laptop configuration:
Inspiron E1505 N - $599
Intel® Pentium® dual-core proc T2080(1MB Cache/1.73GHz/533MHz FSB
Ubuntu Edition version 7.04
512MB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 DIMM
80GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
These prices are for the default configurations, if you opt you can go for additional upgrades.
I think for the home and office user the specs are quite reasonable. But for power users, developers and such these specs must be upgraded.
Oracle, IBM, NEC Team for Linux Push in Japan
Major IT companies including Oracle, IBM and NEC are allying to sell hardware running Linux OSes in Japan, according to published reports. The undertaking aims to respond to procurement guidelines drawn by the country’s Communications Ministry in March that call for the government to use the open source Linux operating systems starting this summer. Read more
Dell Canonical Partnership
I blogged about rumors getting official and now it’s pretty much official that Dell will be selling some consumer-focused laptop and desktop models with Ubuntu’s new “Feisty Fawn” version of Linux installed at the end of this month.
Dell chose a business model of community support with optional commercial support from Canonical. It creates a very good pitch for local Malaysian Linux Consulting firms and individual consultants to establish some sort of partnership with Dell and make some extra money. It also creates environment where local computer services firms who already have Linux specialists have marketing move where they say “Hey, we support Linux too!”, Mark says.
Especially with Dell opening global biz centre in Cyberjaya and expanding its operations.
As for the models to be sold Ubuntu pre-installed, I think Dell will be either changing some components in the current models to meet open standards or they will be introducing a range of new models for this.
Anyways, it’s very good to see such a big company to come forward and support Open Source. Now, I really hope they will not only sell but contribute to Open Source movement.
Go Dell, Go!
Rumors that Dell will pre-install Linux is getting official
It’s been quite some time now that Dell is surveying users and market on pre-installing Linux on their PCs. They have launched a few sites regarding this, made some buzz in the technology arena and disappointed Bill Gates and his team.
Until this day options went down to Fedora, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu. Now there have been rumors that developers from Ubuntu has confirmed this. I have read about this on Gizmodo.
Well, I strongly believe that Linux doing great efforts to get into desktop market and doing it with great success so far.
Michael Dell is also running latest version of Ubuntu 7.04 on his home laptop.
Via unveils first pico-ITX design
Chip-maker Via Technologies has revealed details about its “pico-ITX” hardware reference design, and promised to announce its first commercially available mainboard based on the new form-factor “soon.” Slightly smaller than the venerable PC/104 standard, pico-ITX represents “the smallest complete x86 mainboard in the industry,” Via said.
Measuring 3.9 x 2.8 inches (10cm x 7.2cm), pico-ITX boards have half the surface area of nano-ITX boards, and a quarter that of boards based on the now 5-year-old mini-ITX standard. The miniaturization is enabled in part by an 82 percent real estate reduction of Via’s chipsets, which have shrunk from 50 x 50mm in mini-ITX’s original “Socket 370″ processors to just 21 x 21mm for the “nanoBGA” package used in Via’s current C7 product family.
reports LinuxDevices
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