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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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), [...]