World to Dell: We Want Desktop Linux! | Linux Today

World to Dell: We Want Desktop Linux!

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 11, 2007

“While Dell is yet to make an announcement for Australia, the PC
maker’s UK office has declared: ‘Dell Answers Customer Calls For
Linux In Europe.’ Unless of course you live in Austria, Belgium,
Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey…

“There’s been a lot of noise about desktop Linux in the past few
weeks. First, retailers in Singapore began selling the Acer Aspire
5710Z with the Ubuntu distribution pre-installed, then Acer told
ZDNet Australia’s sister site ZDNet UK it wouldn’t follow suit in
the UK due to lack of demand…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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