Dell’s to sell Ubuntu ultrabooks this fall, Project Sputnik graduates from beta

Posted by caitlyn on Jul 19, 2012 9:39 AM EDT
Liliputing; By Brad Linder
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Dell plans to start selling a limited number of laptops running Ubuntu Linux this fall. The first will be a Dell XPS 13 ultrabook aimed at developers and running Ubuntu 12.04. For the past few months the company has been running an exploratory project based on the idea. It’s called Project Sputnik, and Dell already offers a disk image that you can download and install on an XPS 13 laptop. Dell also recently announced a beta program that would allow developers to sign up for an opportunity to purchase discounted XPS 13 models with Ubuntu pre-loaded.

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