Today marks Dell's entry into the market with Ubuntu configured systems:<br><h4 style="margin-left: 40px;">"Dell Offers Three Consumer Systems With Ubuntu 7.04 </h4>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;">It's finally here. Later today, Dell will offer U.S customers three different systems with <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
Ubuntu 7.04</a> installed: the XPS 410n and Dimension E520n desktops and the Inspiron E1505n notebook. These systems will be available at
<a href="http://www.dell.com/open" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">www.dell.com/open</a> by 4pm CST today. Starting price for the E520n desktop and the E1505n notebook is $599; the XPS 410n starts at $899."
<br></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;">Source: <a href="http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/05/24/15994.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/05/24/15994.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage</a> <br></div><br>- Brian<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Martin Owens</b>
<<a href="mailto:doctormo@gmail.com">doctormo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I look forward to it, as a long time Perl and Python programmer I will
<br>be eagerly looking to see what Ruby is and if Rails is any good for<br>production grade coding.<br><br>Oh and I'm currently job hunting so if Dell want a linux person for<br>their Boston office I'd be very interested.
<br><br>Best Regards, Martin Owens<br><br>On 23/05/07, Brian DeLacey <<a href="mailto:bdelacey@gmail.com">bdelacey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hackety Hack is a new open source program for learning programming using
<br>> Ruby. An early release on Ubuntu was released last night. It's a pretty<br>> remarkable learning tool developed by why the lucky stiff, who has a long<br>> list of technically impressive projects built in and around Ruby.
<br>><br>> The Ubuntu pre-pre-release is now available for an early glimpse. I<br>> installed it on the latest Ubuntu without any problems. Here's how you can<br>> too:<br>><br>> This binary is built on Ubuntu Feisty (i686). You will need to supply
<br>> firefox and wxwindows.<br>> On Ubuntu:<br>><br>> sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-0<br>> cd hacketyhack-0.L<br>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib<br>> /firefox:. ./hacketyhack<br>> I'd be interested in any thoughts you may have on Hackety Hack. Over the
<br>> next few months, Canonical will be looking to promote Ubuntu / Edubuntu as<br>> an ideal teaching environment for computer programming in schools.<br>><br>> I've also been in contact with Dell about their upcoming release of
<br>> Dell/Ubuntu machines. Their Boston office is looking into what they might be<br>> able to do in the way of a public meeting forum. I'll be doing a<br>> presentation of Ruby/Rails/Hackety Hack using Ubuntu at the June 20th
<br>> meeting of the Boston Linux User Group meeting.<br>><br>> - Brian<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> --<br>> Ubuntu-us-ma mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-ma@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-ma@lists.ubuntu.com
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