Now that computer maker Dell has bowed to the wishes of its customers—or, at least some of its vocal customers—and has begun offering Ubuntu Linux on consumer PCs, some computer users might be thinking it’s time to start getting up to speed with running Linux as a desktop operating system. But Linux has—pretty justifiably—a reputation for being comprehensible to distinctly nerdy end of the computing spectrum. Sure, folks up to speed on shell scripting, regular expressions, compilers, tarballs, chmod, and version management systems might be able to make Linux sit, stay, roll over, beg, and do other amazing things…but what about (ahem) real people?
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Dell’s Ubuntu Linux Systems Now Available
They’re here. After a month of speculation and buzz, Dell’s Linux-equipped desktop PCs were ready for the market on Thursday. Sporting the Ubuntu 7.04 “Feisty Fawn” operating system, three new systems are available to order starting at 4.p.m. from Dell’s Web site: the Inspiron E1505n, Dimension E520n, and XPS 410n.
Dell claims the absence of licensing costs for an operating system on the newest machines will keep them competitively priced, and they don’t seem to be bluffing. The Dimension E520n comes loaded with an Intel Core 2 Duo E4300, 1GB of RAM, 256MB Nvidia GeForce 7300LE TurboCache graphics card, 250GB hard drive, and 17-inch flat panel display starting at $599. A comparably equipped Windows machine with an inferior video card runs $649.
Dell To Offer Ubuntu Linux on Consumer PCs
Computer maker Dell recently announced it would offer selected consumer PCs with Linux as a pre-installed operating system option, but that it hadn’t yet settled on which distribution, or “flavor,” of Linux it would support. Now, the company has made its decision: Dell will begin offering the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux distribution within a few weeks.
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