I checked it out, its true. He also has like 6 computers listed though, so it might just be a sort of gimmick.
--mat Chris Johnston wrote: > 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." <ECRichards at fbd.com> > 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:general-bounces at brlug.net]On > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
