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- nakani, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12From looking at the comments it's more likely that they were dugg down simply because they are completely insane and mostly unintelligible.
- darkchild, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9I'm curious about the figures as well. It would be nice to know how many dellbuntu machines have been sold so far.
- GetShorty, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Bypass Engadget... Link to source: http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSN2622292420070726?feedType=RSS
- duhblow7, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Compiz runs great on my Dell 700m with an onboard intel graphics card with shared memory. This isn't Vista. And if you do decided to try to refund your Windows license to Dell, you must be able to prove you never hit agree when Windows boots up.
- kaiserollofdoom, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10I'm so proud of all the linux developers out there for creating not only a great operating system but all the developers who develop these great opensource programs that make linux so worthwhile that its not worth passing over it. Linux has gone from basically little support with the top most manufacturer supporting it. Bravo
- Wargalas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5emerge is a Gentoo command. Either he's joking or he's an idiot.
- makario, on 09/03/2009, -0/+4It was a futile attempt to make a humorous joke about the article's title. Don't stress over it, guys.
- Scyth3, on 10/10/2007, -6/+9Good good...I have money in hand waiting for a 13/14" Ubuntu laptop with an nVidia graphics card. I'm sick of onboard laptop graphic cards, and the only laptop with Ubuntu they offer with an nVidia card is 15.4" and bulky.
- mikedoth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Guess this means I can hang out in the Windows forums and start making useless comments also.
- Speed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3No guarantee the hardware will work.
- bruenig, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Dugg down because most people don't get the gentoo humor.
- raseel, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Great job Ubuntu and thanks Dell .... and go to sleep Raseel !!
- sacherjj, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Unless you want to use Citrix or many other things that are required in a real networked business environment. Part of the reason very few, if any, large businesses are running Vista.
- bruenig, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What the hell are you talking about, if hardware works, it works. If you buy a laptop preinstalled with nvidia geforce go 7400 that has linux preinstalled and one that doesn't, guess what they both work with linux.
- angrykeyboarder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Shouldn't that be "# emerge gentoo-dell-desktop"?
- Julolidine, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Apt-get does not work with Gentoo. Your point?
I'll take sudo apt-get dist upgrade over emerging world and all the time that takes. - Beacon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1# emerge ubuntu-dell-desktop
- shady3d, on 02/19/2009, -0/+1HP then DELL ,...... whats next ?????
- tomarocco, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1We just received two of these desktops at work. I am so happy with them I am going to buy one for home. I'm a KDE guy but I'm trying to stick with stock Ubuntu and it's working out OK. I always hated Dell, and ALWAYS built my own desktops. The thing is that everything on these things works, the power supply is quiet, the cooling fan is installed, there are 4 DDR2 slots, and the case looks good. Plus you are making freaking history by buying one. Maybe I'm getting old, but it is nice not to have to cut up my hands installing motherboards into cheap cases with noisy, overpriced power supplies and constantly having to run bad parts back to Fry's.
Not sure about the laptops...I have an Inspiron 6000 with the low-end LCD that is OK, but I would probably want something tougher in my next laptop. The Dell feels like it wants to break even though it hasn't so far. Besides, I spend so much time at the terminal that I don't need to take it with me everywhere I go. - diggsIt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I read that in the forum yesterday. I have an e1505n on order and the shipping date was pushed back a week. When I checked the Ubuntu Dell offerings, the 1505 was still there. I'm not going to risk screwing up my order be calling customer service. I'll just have to wait and see.
- srg13, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Quicktime trailers? Not yours."
When I tried to play a quicktime trailer, Ubuntu told me it didn't have the driver. It then proceeded to search for one, and it took me two clicks to install.
This should be pretty much the same in most modern distros... - YourDoom123, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1its the frontend to gentoo's package manager, portage. the emerge command allows you to install programs using the information from special files called ebuilds.
- angrykeyboarder, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1If only Dell didn't otherwise suck....
- DarkDx, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2No ubuntu sticker :(
- lonpeg, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1It's no surprise really. If you ordered a Dell Ubuntu Inspiron 1505, call them up to check on the status. This guy did and they told him they were no longer making it and that his order would be cancelled. They must be coming out with something new soon.
http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_linux&thread.id=11156 - angrykeyboarder, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Yeah, but the Engadget article will sill be there 3 months from now...
- Gadren, on 10/10/2007, -9/+8This is great -- I bought a Dell notebook with Vista (and then dual booted with Ubuntu), but the more that Ubuntu (or any Linux distro) comes default on notebooks, the better.
- spydon, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Have you checked out the system76.com laptops with ubuntu?
- chowmeined, on 11/09/2007, -1/+0It is too bad people are digging you down, I thought it was funny.
(For those of you that missed it, 'emerge' is the package management tool for gentoo) - pixelnet, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1from the diggs you're not getting I guess most people don't get that.
- FutureGuy, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1lol not that you guys don't already do that, funny.
- DarkDx, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1Why do you think compiz is the only thing the graphics card is for? ¬¬
P.S.:Cedegas owns - mlblac02, on 10/10/2007, -7/+4Put Ubuntu on it yourself. Or another Linux distro. No one is stopping you, and Dell will refund the Windows license.
- drowe, on 10/10/2007, -12/+8Good thing they put Ubuntu in the title. I thought Dell was going to start supporting Gentoo.
- mlblac02, on 10/10/2007, -14/+9The "emerge" command does not work in Ubuntu.
- Daisuke, on 10/10/2007, -8/+2sudo apt-get install emerge
(disclaimer: I know the package doesn't exist.) - FutureGuy, on 10/10/2007, -10/+4I am sure those systems are flying off the shelf like hot cakes, no wonder they are so tight lipped about the sales. They are so successful they don't want to let anyone know /sarcasm I would challenge canonical to release the sales figures so far.
- paku, on 10/10/2007, -9/+2I tried to love you linux.. I tried so hard.
I tried to write AS/400 tto and dtf scripts with you, but they ran in Windows, and everytime you wrote a file, it wrote it in unix format instead of dos, causing them to fail and me to open them in Ultraedit to fix the problem.
The same problem happened when opening perl and other scripts. Some files would have ^M at the end of each line. VIM, GVIM, Text Editor... None of you could handle both formats like Ultraedit or notepad in Windows could.
Then it comes to dialing into other PCs. Sure, connecting to PCs with broadband works if they use RDP or VNC, but what about those I have to dial in to? Remember phone lines?
Exchange server and Evolution? Yeah....
Quicktime trailers? Not yours.
I like the hackability of linux, and the clean feeling of an OS not burdened with bloatware, but c'mon.. I don't have time to find "workarounds" at work and sometimes there aren't any and I get this argument: ("Why are you using X, Y, and Z protocol anyway!?!?"). - pcgeek101, on 10/10/2007, -9/+2I'd rather have Vista pre-installed too, personally. It sounds like support for Ubuntu is still pretty limited, and Vista works really well in a business environment.
- ElbridgeGerry, on 10/10/2007, -9/+2Digg down party? Again?
- Diffy, on 10/10/2007, -8/+0WOW! This is truely amazing. I love this! Just when I thought my day was going to be bad this article became popular. Thank you so much for this! Really a great find! Just AWESOME!
- DualCortex, on 10/10/2007, -8/+0What a crappy article... sorry.
But don't digg me down, I love Ubuntu! Seriously. - DarkJesus, on 10/10/2007, -9/+1What?
- zezerik, on 10/10/2007, -14/+2No thanks, I'll take Vista. Start diggin' me down you heathens
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