I received a comment this morning from KerryatDell which stated that Dell was in fact still offering Ubuntu in the UK. There was also a link provided to Direct2Dell’s blog which provided further information:

Some of you have been asking me about the Inquirer’s recent story that we were dumping support for Ubuntu in the U.K. Let me just get this out of the way—the Inquirer was wrong. Now to be fair, the Inquirer did publish an update story after speaking with Dell—more on that in just a bit. What really happened? For a short time yesterday, the link to the Inspiron 6400n was broken on the Dell UK Ubuntu page. That broken link was fixed early this morning, so UK customers can go here to order an Inspiron 6400n with Ubuntu. Sorry for any churn this has caused.

That’s great news and I am personally glad to hear that the original story was in error. I hope that Dell sticks with offering Ubuntu on systems now and in the future.

Comments welcome.

Direct2Dell blog article is here.

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