May 24
We all knew it would happen, but to be honest, I didn’t think it would happen quite so soon. Morgan just pasted this link to me on IRC, Dell will start taking orders for Ubuntu laptops today. Wow. If you asked me six months ago, I would estimate that it would take at least 2-3 years for this to happen. So, everyone who called me too optimistic were WRONG!! Mhuhahahaha.
Get more information from http://www.dell.com/open
They also have a mailing list for their Linux announcements: http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-announce
Also cool, they use GNU Mailman for their mailing lists! It’s highly uplifting to see big corporates interested in selling and using free software. I just badly hope we can buy them in South Africa too, soon.
May 24th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
Link seems to be down.
May 24th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
There is an extra “w” in your link to dell’s website, not on what’s displayed, but the actual link.
May 24th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
the link to the dell.com page contains one “w” too much.
May 24th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Hey Jonathan,
Fix your link to dell (you use wwww in the source):
http://wwww.dell.com/open
May 24th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Fixed, seems that I couldn’t contain the excitement
May 24th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
I’m thrilled. I think dell does the Ubuntu offer presentation very well!
May 25th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Only problem is that the laptop is ugly