Comments on: Dell – Some Good News And Bad News – Michael Dell Using Ubuntu Linux

By: Ron Schenone

Ron Schenone — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:44:36 +0000

Hi Tim,
I agree. Ubuntu is a great choice. Thanks for the comment.

Heh Marc,
Ubuntu is a consumer class Linux distro. And Suse does appear to be the best one currently for business. Though Dell seems to like Red Hat for their servers.

Thanks to you both, Ron

By: marc klink

marc klink — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:33:11 +0000

I’m not sure that business users will want to have Ubuntu, but for home users it should be great. The bad thing about business desktops is that over and over it has been reported that Suse from Novell is best. Unfortunately, Novell is somewhat persona non grata with the rest of the Linux community right now because of their deals [some would spell that s-e-l-l-o-u-t] with MS. I haven’t tried the latest Suse, but as of 9.2 they showed me what a great product it was, and at that time worlds ahead of anything else. This included Redhat, but then this is my preference. I base this on how well it worked on an MS network, and how well it came up on the somewhat odd variety of hardware I own.

By: Tim Hodkinson

Tim Hodkinson — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:08:08 +0000

I think Ubuntu is an excellent choice.

For starters, I’m sure Ubuntu’s sponsor, Canonical will give Dell the install disks for free.

Ubuntu support can be provided by Ubuntu and be free of Dell’s support service problems (one less thing for Dell to worry about). Ubuntu is stylish right now and will appeal more to new users than the other distros. Ubuntu has been designed for desktop users (ie. ordinary folks).

Whether it pays off for anyone though depends on how many people will actually buy these systems. Everything seems to depend on the size of the user base. It’s really up to customers to decide what happens. I don’t think Dell could choose a better distro than Ubuntu, though.