Hardware vendors

[Dave Ihnat]

Once, long ago--actually, on Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 02:26:01PM -0700--Richard Vickery (richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com) said:
> The only way to get a Dell with Ubuntu installed is/was to call them up
> from inside the US. I got mine in this manner; mind you, this was 5-6 years
> ago.

They don't, AFAIK, pre-install any version of Linux.  But they do have a
full line of machines that come with no OS installed (well, I think there may
be a copy of FreeDOS.)  Look at the 'N' series machines.

Canonical is still trumpeting its 'partnership' with Dell:

  http://www.ubuntu.com/partners/dell

And as of May, they were pushing something called Sputnik as an
experimental project to produce Linux laptops:

  http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/new-dell-ubuntu-ultrabooks-a-step-in-the-right-direction-for-linux-support/

Cheers,
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	Dave Ihnat
	dihnat at dminet.com