Dell Plans To Have Linux Pre-installed

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Well the news keeps on coming in tech world last few days. Dell is currently working on setting up their computers with a Linux kernal and open source drivers that support linux. They haven't mention who they are going with, but one would guess that it would be Red Hat since they are one of the top linux distributors in the world. Also they do have programs worked out for SUSE and red hat for Dells servers.

 

It was mentioned in the survey that

 

At least half of the Linux fans who participated in an IdeaStorm survey, said they wanted Dell to ship free, open source software with the operating system, and drivers available under the GNU General Public License, which also covers Linux. That, however, won't be possible in all cases.

Linux survey

 

In this survey you can decide which system you like dell to have the linux system working on. Although they did mention that full dell support would be somewhat limited to just hardware support due to the fact that the actual linux support can be found practically anywhere. But that could change if they can't find or develope a universal driver for linux, if not they would have to develpe something on the hardware side. It is mention they do have some computers will linux pre-installed, however, they have a low rate of being sold.

 

 

 

 

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