Linux en Dells

[Phil Pinkerton]

My choice would be Ubuntu also, next week I will be installing it on a 64bit
laptop.

However I have install more than 30 distros from Slackware 1 to Conectiva 10
in both English and Portuguese. Its like a candy store some flavors are
better than others depending on your taste for the day.

If I were Dell I would go for a pure Debian installation by default
including both Gnome and KDE.

It would be nice if Debian based distros had a candy package to allow base
Debian users to just add the glitz.

Phil


On 3/13/07, Eamonn Sullivan <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/13/07, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> [snip]
> > If we want Linux on consumer machines than we must use this survey to
> > stand behind what we feel is the leading (and most promising in the
> > future) distro, rather than our personal taste, so as to maximize the
> > chances that this distro will emerge in the survey statistics, so that
> > Dell doens't give up in Linux due to a lack of clear message from the
> > users. Lucky for us, the leading distro also happens to be the one we
> > prefer, Ubuntu, but I take this survey more seriously than that, and
> > even if I were a fan of some obscure distro, I would still vote for
> > Ubuntu ! IMHO this survey is an incredible chance, it must be used
> > strategically, and not taken lightly !
>
> Actually, I think it doesn't matter at all what distro Dell picks. We
> all use the same kernel, which is where most of the the hardware
> support is (i.e., device drivers). Dell will have to think carefully
> about the hardware (wireless chipset, graphics card) and be careful to
> choose parts that are recognized and supported by the Linux kernel.
>
> That's great for everyone. I may wipe off Red Hat or whatever distro
> Dell chooses, but because they chose *some* Linux and got it to work
> before it left the factory, I'm much more likely to be successful at
> installing Ubuntu.
>
> -Eamonn
>
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