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O.T. Dell to sell more Linux PCs
Ubuntu for all

Tags: pcs, dell, linux, ubuntu

http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39167986,00.htm

Published: Monday 30 July 2007

Dell will soon offer more PCs that use the Linux operating system as opposed to Microsoft Windows, said the founder of a company that offers Linux support services.

Mark Shuttleworth, who created the Ubuntu version of Linux and founded Canonical to provide support for it, said Dell is happy with the demand it has seen for Linux PCs, which Dell introduced in May.

Dell, the world's second-largest PC maker after HP, now offers five consumer PCs that run Ubuntu Linux.

Shuttleworth said: "What's been announced to date is not the full extent of what we will see over the next couple of weeks and months. There are additional offerings in the pipeline."

Dell spokeswoman Anne Camden declined comment, saying the company does not discuss products in the pipeline. She added that Dell has been pleased with customer response to its Linux PCs.

Shuttleworth said his company is not in discussions with HP or any of the other top five PC makers to introduce machines equipped with Ubuntu. The other three top PC makers are Lenovo, Acer and Toshiba.