Will Dell sell Ubuntu in Canada?
Maurice Murphy
m1625 at rogers.com
Sat May 5 15:52:24 UTC 2007
For those interested, here's the link to the Dell US n-series website:
http://www.dell.com/content/products/features.aspx/nseries?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&redirect=1
For those of us in Canada, here's another interesting link to some no
distro boxes:
> http://www.thetrailingedge.com/products.php?cat=dtr
Maurice
Cody Somerville wrote:
> I just got off the phone with someone there and it sounds like he
> didn't even know that the US counterpart would be selling Linux
> preloaded - "There is no information about it about."
>
> On 5/5/07, *Cody Somerville* <cody.somerville at gmail.com
> <mailto:cody.somerville at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I call them today. <g>
>
>
> On 5/5/07, *Chris Powell* < str8line at gmail.com
> <mailto:str8line at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> The Direct 2 Dell site and the Imagine Sense site from Dell
> are what made all this happen in the US the way that it did.
> If I may make a suggestion....do as our American open source
> brothers and sisters did, tell Dell not each other.
>
> Chris Powell
>
>
> On 5/5/07, *RIchard Seguin* < ubuntu at nb.sympatico.ca
> <mailto:ubuntu at nb.sympatico.ca>> wrote:
>
> I don't imagine it will take long to follow. I am not
> sure why they
> implemented that in the US first.
> Dell could make a lot more money if they DIDN'T include
> the OS in there
> packages.
>
>
> Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > On 5/2/07, cc <disgruntled.toaster at gmail.com
> <mailto:disgruntled.toaster at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >> Just curious, I don't see anything about it at
> http://www.dell.ca <http://www.dell.ca>
> >>
> >
> > I haven't see anything either about us Canadians. The
> deal announced
> > yesterday seems to only be for the US market:
> >
> > "Update: These systems will be available in the coming
> weeks to
> > customers in the United States."
> >
> http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/05/01/13147.aspx
> <http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/05/01/13147.aspx>
> >
> >
> >
>
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