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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