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It's Simple; Build A Better Desktop

DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Fri, 07/25/2008 - 01:20

Mark Shuttleworth, founder and financial backer of Ubuntu, urges the Linux Community to "build a better desktop than Apple." Shuttleworth made this statement this week at OSCON (O'Reilly's Open Source Convention).

He added that interoperability with Windows is of very high importance. Sounds easy enough. Let me get right on that.

Shuttleworth is actually correct. We should focus on a better Linux desktop--better than Apple's Mac OS X--better than Windows--and better than current Linux offerings.

If you're not a billionaire like Mark Shuttleworth, how do you go about building a better...

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Dell Steps Up Its Linux Offerings

DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Sat, 07/19/2008 - 16:16

Round Rock, Texas-based Dell, Inc. announced Friday that it is now offering the latest Ubuntu (8.04 Hardy Heron) released in April of this year on some of their popular consumer grade laptops and desktop models.

Currently available in the United States, France, Germany, Spain, Canada, United Kingdom, Mexico and Colombia. You may purchase the following computers with Ubuntu 8.04: XPS M1330N, the Inspiron 1525N notebooks, and the Inspiron 530N desktop.

Ubuntu is an easy-to-use Linux distribution with superb hardware detection and Linux stability. A boxed version of Ubuntu is available...

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