Ubuntu announced for Dell Computers
Posted May 22nd, 2007 by Mihnea Boiangiu
Dell announced on their blog that Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn was chosen for Dell computers. Their customers will receive a computer with default Ubuntu media including kernel and applications. Dell will configure and install the open-source drivers for hardware if that will be possible. If don’t they will use the closed source drivers like in the Intel wireless cards case or Conexant modems.
Dell has already developed a wiki page at linux.dell.com website. There you could find technical details, information about the problems and fixes. To avoid any problems with the printers, Dell recommends the printers that have PostScript engines in them.
Dell has told that the company is looking to work with the hardware vendors to improve the quality of the associated Linux drivers. Furthermore, Dell announces that they won’t offer any support for audio and video codecs. These codecs aren’t distributed with the Ubuntu OS.
The first computers with Linux OS are: the E520, 1505 and XPS 410. Dell will ship the new Linux based computers starting this Thursday, 5/24.
