Is Dell Embracing Open Source?

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april05 Power-User Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Troy, NY Posts: 388 Good Answers: 3	Is Dell Embracing Open Source? 05/07/2009 3:31 PM
	Not a big fan myself of spreading Internet rumors, but I heard from a colleague today that Dell might be planning to adopt Google's open-source operating system for a line of new, low-cost "netbook" computers. Most credible Internet source I could find just now is a write-up - click here to view - from CNET News reporter, Erica Ogg. Does anyone in the CR4 community know the source of this information, and what Dell's plans might be? Seems like this would be an important shift in Dell's business model, if true. Thanks in advance for folks sharing here in this discussion thread. - Larry
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Bayes The Engineer Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Albany, New York Posts: 5060 Good Answers: 129	#1 Re: Is Dell Embracing Open Source? 05/07/2009 4:35 PM
	I thought I saw them selling computers with Ubuntu, or one of its variations. http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
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april05 Power-User Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Troy, NY Posts: 388 Good Answers: 3	#2 In reply to #1 Re: Is Dell Embracing Open Source? 05/07/2009 4:54 PM
	Many thanks, Roger. Between the Android and Ubuntu open-source OS's, looks like the evidence is building that Dell is increasingly going down a new path for operating systems. It would be interesting to know what Microsoft thinks of this and how they might respond. - Larry
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bwire Guru Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Upper Mid-west USA Posts: 7498 Good Answers: 97	#3 In reply to #2 Re: Is Dell Embracing Open Source? 05/07/2009 11:16 PM
	Dell may be switching from Pontiac to Buick eh? __________________ If death came with a warning there would be a whole lot less of it.
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cwarner7_11 Guru Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Panama Posts: 4273 Good Answers: 213	#4 In reply to #3 Re: Is Dell Embracing Open Source? 05/08/2009 11:53 AM
	bwire- More like switching from Yugo to Lamborghini- especially when one considers that the last guy I knew who had a Lamborghini drove it for about a month, then left it parked in the garage for more than two years waiting for a new drive shaft that had to be special-ordered from Italy...
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bwire Guru Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Upper Mid-west USA Posts: 7498 Good Answers: 97	#6 In reply to #4 Re: Is Dell Embracing Open Source? 05/12/2009 1:42 PM
	Irony, he could have ordered through GM tech library with an expected delivery of six weeks __________________ If death came with a warning there would be a whole lot less of it.
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Epke Guru Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Japan Posts: 2703 Good Answers: 38	#5 In reply to #3 Re: Is Dell Embracing Open Source? 05/10/2009 9:10 PM
	A car with different options is better then just buying MS Pinto. But Jokes asides, it is giving customers Choice, which is always a good thing. __________________ From the Movie "The Big Lebowski" Don't pee on the carpet man!
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bwire Guru Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Upper Mid-west USA Posts: 7498 Good Answers: 97	#7 In reply to #5 Re: Is Dell Embracing Open Source? 05/12/2009 1:48 PM
	Actually it is taking advantage of an uninformed group and the systems demise has already been adjudicated. MS is currently incorporating use of open source in near future releases and what we're discussing now will be left in the dust not unlike cassette tapes. __________________ If death came with a warning there would be a whole lot less of it.
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