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Dell Continues Newspaper Ads for Ubuntu Linux Laptop

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In newspaper ads across the United States, Dell is promoting a low-cost notebook computer called the Inspiron Mini 9 running Ubuntu Linux. It's Microsoft's worst holiday nightmare.

In newspaper ads across the United States, Dell is promoting a low-cost notebook computer called the Inspiron Mini 9 running Ubuntu Linux. It's Microsoft's worst holiday nightmare.

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Comments (3)

theboomboomcars ·
and none of them show a screen shot of the windows machine, but they all show a screen shot of the Ubuntu one.

Seems funny to me.

At least this one mentions that the Ubuntu one is running Ubuntu.
tracyanne ·
You won't see any of those Dell ads in Australia. The don't sell the Linux machines in Australia, not even the next to useless hardware deficient version that runs Ubuntu.
jdixon ·
Notice that apparently not one of them mentions the dread word Linux though. Only "Ubuntu".

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