Dell Pushes the Penguin Forward

[WC Annihilus]

"It seems that Dell will soon be selling systems with the Ubuntu flavor of Linux pre-loaded."

Read on...

 

[FarFarAway]

That is a link to the test site. Link amended

 

[Rastalovich]

Is there a capable office suite for Unbuntu ?

 

[FarFarAway]

OpenOffice?

 

[Rastalovich]

I don`t know if any1s done any sort of poll in terms of what people just bought a ready built computer for.

I would put out there that prehaps a results may look something like:

1. Email

2. Internet (general)

3. Work/office related

....

4. Games

5. Music/media

Only reason I`d put Games down there is cos the majority or game players I feel wouldn`t want a pre-build so much. Similarly for coders, or coders who are worth their salt and don`t do it cos they have a piece of paper that says they can.

Anyways, the top 3 would give u a large market in 3 varieties only one of them being windows based.

It`s quite clever, I mean I can see my sister using a Mac, she just does theoretical top 3 there. Mother too. Nephews and nieces, I mean they have an Xbox or similar for gaming - perhaps the odd football management thing on a pc.

 

[macgamesrule]

Firefox - browsing

Thunderbird - email

OpenOffice - productivity

Gimp - image editing

Various music programs - music

VLC - video

That's 90% of home users' everyday needs right there. I use all of the above except Gimp... who needs MS?

 

[equk]

Sounds good as long as they don't charge a fee for installing linux

Still good for ubuntu I guess

Wonder if they will give support.

 

[equk]

I don`t know if any1s done any sort of poll in terms of what people just bought a ready built computer for.

I would put out there that prehaps a results may look something like:

1. Email

2. Internet (general)

3. Work/office related

....

4. Games

5. Music/media

Only reason I`d put Games down there is cos the majority or game players I feel wouldn`t want a pre-build so much. Similarly for coders, or coders who are worth their salt and don`t do it cos they have a piece of paper that says they can.

Anyways, the top 3 would give u a large market in 3 varieties only one of them being windows based.

It`s quite clever, I mean I can see my sister using a Mac, she just does theoretical top 3 there. Mother too. Nephews and nieces, I mean they have an Xbox or similar for gaming - perhaps the odd football management thing on a pc.

Ubuntu comes with firefox, gaim, totem (media player), gimp & openoffice already installed (I think there is a mail client aswell, but can't remember the name as I norm install thunderbird)

I use linux for all of the things you have stated above & more

I think people need to realise linux is not windows aswell. When a lot of people say 'games' they include windows games (which are mainly directx). It's a bit like moaning because your xbox doesn't play playstation2 games.

Altho you can play windows games (at a lower fps) using cedega/wine etc.

There are also some good native linux games.