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Dell took another step toward fulfilling its promise of brining preinstalled Linux operating systems to select consumer computers Tuesday when it announced it has selected Canonical's Ubuntu as its distribution of choice. While many Linux enthusiasts have hailed the announcement and look forward to the moment when the Dell computers go on sale at the end of May, some industry watchers have been left to ponder how the No. 2 computer manufacturer will make sales of Ubuntu 7.04, known as "Feisty Fawn," profitable.
Re: Ubuntu on Dell: Where's the Profit?
Posted by: profolio 2007-05-06 06:49:59 In reply to: Walaika Haskins
While I don't know what kind of deal Dell reached with Canonical to put Ubuntu on their boxes, I personally think that they made the wrong choice, both strategically and financially. As a OSX and XP user, I was somewhat disappointed with my first encounter with Ubuntu about a year ago. I found it to be hyped, not really P&P, and the Gnome interface a bit clunky. Even Linus Torvalds said that Gnome suffered from under development. Since then, after trying just about a dozen distros, I settled with PCLOS, the most user friendly, fastest and polished distro of the lot. Their support and community is outstanding and Texstar is very prudent when it comes to new releases (a + in my book). PCLOS in my view, takes a lot of the pain out of migrating from XP by making it almost effortless.
You don't need a crystal ball to read the writing on the wall. A short trip to the distro stats on DistroWatch and it becomes clear that PCLOS is fast becoming the favorite and his bound to overtake Ubuntu this year.
You don't need a crystal ball to read the writing on the wall. A short trip to the distro stats on DistroWatch and it becomes clear that PCLOS is fast becoming the favorite and his bound to overtake Ubuntu this year.
why not just stick with red hat and/or fedora core, their already well supported, great documentation and the list goes on and on. Mandriva also...
The next thing you know.. they'll have 10 different flavors you can choose for your dell. I say go for it, then we wont have to listed to ppl telling everyone how great their distro is etc.. etc...
The real deal is just mastering your linux shell anyways.
The next thing you know.. they'll have 10 different flavors you can choose for your dell. I say go for it, then we wont have to listed to ppl telling everyone how great their distro is etc.. etc...
The real deal is just mastering your linux shell anyways.
Re: Ubuntu on Dell: Where's the Profit?
Posted by: tjamnz 2007-05-03 10:10:09 In reply to: Walaika Haskins
Dell probably doesnt profit by installing the microsoft operating system either...
So whats the question?
So whats the question?
