[brlug-general] Dell chooses Ubuntu

[Chris Johnston]

I heard on a recent TWiT podcast that Michael Dell is running Ubuntu "Feisty Fawn" on his own machine at home. It is apparently noted in the corporate bios at Dell's website. I have not gone to dell.com to check this out though.

Christopher Johnston
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From:  "Richards Jr, Edward C." <ECRichards at fbd.com>
Subj:  Re: [brlug-general] Dell chooses Ubuntu
Date:  Tue May 1, 2007 11:18 am
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       I  can't get it (either i386 or AMD 64 versions) to run on my laptop or desktop  machines. Both have nVidia video cards. It will only boot the live CD in "safe  video" mode and then after the installation completes and upon reboot, in the  case of the laptop (nVidia 6150), the screen just morphs into a bunch of smeared  colors and the desktop machine (nVidia 6200), I get to the login screen, log in  and it drops me to command line as says something about it can't start the  desktop or some such error message. I've been running SimplyMepis, Sabayon, and  all versions of Xandros on the laptop and Xandros Professional and KnoppMyth on  the desktop machine, all without incident. 
 
 Ed
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From: general-bounces at brlug.net  [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net]On Behalf Of Andrew  Baudouin
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:47 AM
To:  general at brlug.net
Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Dell chooses  Ubuntu


Ubuntu has the most hardware support, popularity,  and commitment to the desktop space right now. I was amazed to install  Feisty and have my PVR-150 working without doing anything in 64-bit mode .


 On 5/1/07, Joe  Fruchey <jfruchey at gmail.com>  wrote: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8661763902.html

Boy,  I hope this goes well. I would so love to see some major Linux
desktop  proliferation. But then, I'm posting this to a LUG list, so 
that's a  given,  right?!

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