14 DAY TRIAL // Dell has officially become a friend and supporter of the Ubuntu users' community. The American computer-hardware company based in Round Rock, Texas, has just updated its website where it presents its open source offerings. Dell's interest in open source is not new. Dell has also been known as partnering with companies such as Red Hat or Novell/SUSE. Now, after having announced on May 1, 2007 that it would be shipping the Ubuntu Linux distribution on its notebooks and laptops, Dell started selling them. For the moment the offer takes in only a laptop, a budget computer and a high-end PC.
Dell said it would offer hardware support, where the standard hardware warranty is applied, for all the three systems. The customers can get help and latest updates from the Dell Community Forum & the official Dell Linux website. Canonical also said to offer support to everyone who buys a Dell system with Ubuntu pre-installed. There are fee-based options that include 30-day Get Started, One-year Basic and One-year Standard.
The configuration of the three systems coming with pre-installed Ubuntu:
Dimension E520 N :
- Intel Core Duo Processor E4300 (1.8GHz, 800 FSB) - Ubuntu Desktop Edition version 7.04 - 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs - 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache
Inspiron E1505 N :
-Intel Pentium dual-core proc T2080(1MB Cache/1.73GHz/533MHz FSB) - Ubuntu Edition version 7.04 - 512MB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 DIMM - 80GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
XPS 410 N :
- Intel Core2 Duo Processor E4300 (2MB L2 Cache,1.8GHz,800FSB) - Ubuntu Desktop Edition version 7.04 - 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 2 DIMMs - 250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache
You can buy these systems right now from Dell.