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Dell Drops Ubuntu

Jul 25 2010 Published by under Software


Lack of customer uptake or a brown paper envelope from Microsoft?

It’s as if a million penguins cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. Dell has dropped Ubuntu-loaded machines from their online store – a head-scratching play, considering their original declaration that Ubuntu is safer than Windows. The move comes after Dell posted a totally compelling argument for each operating system on its website, advising that only open source programmers should consider Ubuntu. That’s not completely unwise advice, but it’s not like Ubuntu is an unsolvable puzzlebox, or something.

Read the full story @ Techi

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OpenSuse 11.3 from a Windows Point of View

Jul 24 2010 Published by under Geek, Software

This is an ongoing log (blog) into installing & using OpenSUSE 11.3 from the point of view of a Windows user.

OK let’s start from scratch; I’ve used Unix in the past, and yes, I’ve used a few Linux distro’s over the years with little success. The main issue, not being ease of install, but driver support for new hardware.

After taking a long, long a break from OpenSUSE (my then distro of choice) I’ve decided to have another bash….

More to follow…

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