[Nottingham] Dell supplying preloaded Ubuntu PCs... or not

Camilo Mesias camilo at mesias.co.uk
Mon Aug 9 18:43:31 UTC 2010


It's ironic that most netbooks seem to work really well with Linux
these days. I'm running Fedora on a new-ish (well Atom era) netbook
and it is more polished than it has ever been.

-Cam

On 8/9/10, Going It Alone <reggaemaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Support for XP has now stopped.  Maybe Acer is merely off loading
> their surplus stocks of that os...  Besides that premium price was
> only for attendees of the launch, not because Android is on it.
>
> On 9 August 2010 15:48, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 08/08/10 17:20, Going It Alone wrote:
>>> Apparently Dell is increasing its Linux offerings:
>>> http://blogs.computerworld.com/16608/dell_expands_ubuntu_linux_desktop_offerings
>>
>> And is this where Acer tries again?
>>
>> Acer Debuts Dualboot Android/XP Netbook at $300
>> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Android-Google-Windows-XP-Netbooks-UMPC,news-34002.html
>>
>> Shame they feel the Marketing need to include Windows, and at a $75
>> premium for including Android!
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Martin
>>
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