In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Sat, 19 May 2007 00:56:54 +0100
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> Dell announces the models for Ubuntu
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> | We will be launching a Linux based OS (Ubuntu) on the E520, 1505 and XPS
> | 410 starting next Thursday, 5/24.
> `----
Ah! They're early. I was expecting Tuesday the 29th -- the day after
Memorial Day. Perhaps they're planning a big sale. Interesting...
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> http://jeremy.linuxquestions.org/2007/05/18/dell-announces-the-models-for-ubuntu/
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> Here are the models:
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> http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/cto_xpsdt_410?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
Hm. No indication (yet) of Linux here. This is their XPS line.
If they do put Ubuntu on it, I'll be impressed -- though I'd have
to do more research as to how quiet their 710 model is.
> http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/cto_inspn_e1505?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
Inspiron notebook line. No indications of Linux yet here either.
We'll see come Thursday.
> http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/dimen_e520?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
Dimension desktops. This page has a strange malfunction: no pictures.
No Linux as yet, either...so maybe they're working on it.
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>
> Related:
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> http://www.ubuntu.com/dell
"COMING SOON: Ubuntu on Dell". The laptop shown is
probably an E1505 model.
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> http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
"COMING SOON: By Popular Demand [Ubuntu logo] Ubuntu"
The picture is interesting in that the flatscreen monitor
looks a bit fake.
Interestingly, the Dell desktop shown does not currently match
any of the Dimension series; it is instead an XPS 410.
http://www.dell.com/content/products/compare.aspx/desktops?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn
I'll put this down to marketing sloppiness, but they'd better be careful.
:-)
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