Ubuntu on Dell - Good for Linux or just for Canonical?

Posted by Sander_Marechal on May 2, 2007 3:15 AM EDT
Lone Wolves; By Sander Marechal
Mail this story
Print this story

Dell hasn't stated yet exactly on which models it will provide pre-installed Ubuntu, but Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has a nice analysis of the different options and most likely models. One thing sticks out from that list: as bigg on the LXer forum has noticed, they all have Nvidia cards and Broadcom 1390 wireless cards. Will Dell be shipping machines with no hardware 3D and wireless support? That can't be good for Linux! But it's certainly going to be good for Canonical selling paid support...

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: Editorial, News Story; Groups: Ubuntu

« Return to the newswire homepage

Subject Topic Starter Replies Views Last Post
Or not so good purplewizard 6 1,580 May 3, 2007 4:53 AM
Certification richo123 3 1,530 May 2, 2007 9:49 PM

You cannot post until you login.