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Dell unveils exclusive Microsoft-branded Ubuntu OS

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Dell is currently flogging a cheap-as-chips netbook that apparently comes loaded with that well-known Microsoft operating system, Ubuntu 8.04. Anyone dropping in on the computer maker's UK product website will be able to buy an Intel-based Inspiron Mini 10 laptop for £199 a pop. And, according to the blurb on the site, one ickle mobile computer in its current range is being shipped with Microsoft's, er, Linux-flavoured OS. Shurely shome mishtake, we think.

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Comments (12)

caitlyn ·
I looked at the ad and they're right! It does say Microsoft Ubuntu 8.04! Too funny!

Here in the U.S. the best deal at Dell right now is the Vostro A90 (formerly the Inspiron Mini 9v) starting at US $219. You can custom configure it and bring the price up quite a bit as you add features. See: http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=bqcw9n...
gus3 ·
I see the words "Ubuntu Linux," but the Microsoft logo.
tuxtom ·
MS-Linux will be here soon enough. It's only natural.
gus3 ·
Embrace, Extend, Excoriate
caitlyn ·
Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!

[Dalek voice, of course]
tuxchick ·
MS-Linux? That should be fun. Slow, bloaty, buggy, and insecure. A perfect storm of kwality.
gus3 ·
Hey, Linux has that, too! I actually locked up the Btrfs driver just a couple hours ago!

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