I heard on a recent TWiT podcast that Michael Dell is running Ubuntu "Feisty Fawn" on his own machine at home. It is apparently noted in the corporate bios at Dell's website. I have not gone to dell.com to check this out though.
Christopher Johnston http://techchris.com Sent from my Palm Treo -----Original Message----- From: "Richards Jr, Edward C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj: Re: [brlug-general] Dell chooses Ubuntu Date: Tue May 1, 2007 11:18 am Size: 2K To: <general at brlug.net> I can't get it (either i386 or AMD 64 versions) to run on my laptop or desktop machines. Both have nVidia video cards. It will only boot the live CD in "safe video" mode and then after the installation completes and upon reboot, in the case of the laptop (nVidia 6150), the screen just morphs into a bunch of smeared colors and the desktop machine (nVidia 6200), I get to the login screen, log in and it drops me to command line as says something about it can't start the desktop or some such error message. I've been running SimplyMepis, Sabayon, and all versions of Xandros on the laptop and Xandros Professional and KnoppMyth on the desktop machine, all without incident. Ed -----Original Message----- From: general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Baudouin Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:47 AM To: general at brlug.net Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Dell chooses Ubuntu Ubuntu has the most hardware support, popularity, and commitment to the desktop space right now. I was amazed to install Feisty and have my PVR-150 working without doing anything in 64-bit mode . On 5/1/07, Joe Fruchey <jfruchey at gmail.com> wrote: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8661763902.html Boy, I hope this goes well. I would so love to see some major Linux desktop proliferation. But then, I'm posting this to a LUG list, so that's a given, right?! _______________________________________________ General mailing list General at brlug.net http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
