[ubuntu-uk] Dell says Ubuntu safer than Windows

[Matthew Bassett]

On 15 June 2010 10:04, Gordon Allott <gord.allott at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 09:25 +0100, Matthew Bassett wrote:
>> On 14 June 2010 20:29, Barry Titterton
>> <barry.titterton at mail.adsl4less.com> wrote:
>> > It's official:
>> >
>> > http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu?c=us&l=en&cs=19
>> >
>>
>> But not in the UK apparently :(
>>

>
> There is a reason for that! right now dell are only selling the mini 10
> netbook which is a terrible terrible machine that won't work well on
> ubuntu because of the nasty gpu (closed source drivers, only works with
> old kernels). the last word i heard on it was that dell are spinning up
> a new line of netbooks or something and ubuntu will be offered on that
> --
> Gordon Allott

That's very interesting...  (Though they do already sell a Dell Mini
10n in the States)

I'll wait then. It's a race. Between Linux Emporium (Lenevo IdeaPad
S10-3?) and Dell UK (Mini 10n? Or maybe that is the machine with the
bad GPU?) getting something new.

A very slow race.