Fabian Rodriguez wrote:
alan c wrote:
For some days now there has been an avalanche of requests for linux
including Ubuntu, on Dell machines, [...]
But why do I not see a Ubuntu comment in addition to Novell?
And why is it only corporate products?
Eric S Raymond provides some insight in his World Domination 201
paper. I posted about this in the past few days here:
http://www.salmar.com/pipermail/wftl-lug/2007-February/015369.html
http://www.salmar.com/pipermail/wftl-lug/2007-February/015384.html
So really, we need to stop correlating the survey with their Novell
announcement and remember this is a limited,
corporate-market target, Novell-only-for-now deal. Good news, but
certainly not Any Linux on all Dells for eveyone, because of this
single survey. Why ? Among other reasons, the seer size of Dell - but
also pressure from MS I guess.
They actually clarified that later on:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasictaxonomyName=linux_and_unixarticleId=9011907taxonomyId=122intsrc=kc_top
Fabian Rodriguez
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FabianRodriguez
yes thanks, the corporate question was perhaps a distraction.
My main concern is that someone closely related to Ubuntu is into the
situation to get a good and early outcome for Ubuntu.
This does *not* mean preinstalled by Dell I think that is rather
unlikely, but influencing the information about drivers.
Dell are not going to do much for ubuntu just yet, but we can get a
lot of leverage about drivers and maybe influence Dell choices behind
the scenes.
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alan cocks
Kubuntu user#10391
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