Michael Dell uses Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

[OrangeCrate]

Dell may sell Vista and other MS Products, but look at what he uses at home...

    * Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
    * VMWare Workstation 6 Beta
    * OpenOffice.org 2.2
    * Automatix2
    * Firefox 2.0.0.3
    * Evolution Groupware 2.10

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/biographies/en/msd_computers?c=us&l=en&s=corp

[DavidR]

Perhaps that is why they are considering selling systems with Linux installed.

They really could put together a great system and software package, but that might put M$'s nose further out of joint, lost sale of Vista, probable lost sale of MS Office and other MS software, etc.

[Marc57]

 Hey OrangeCrate, I heard on DL.TV that Dell is going to start selling Linux on Desktop PC's in the near future.

[OrangeCrate]

Dell installing Linux has been a topic of conversation in the Linux community for several months now. It took me a while to find it again, but here's an interview with Michael Dell regarding Dell's Linux philosophy:

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3822185143.html

Enlightening.

[Marc57]

OrangeCrate, will Ubuntu 7.04 work OK on an older computer?? I just ordered it on CD to check out.

[Negeltu]

How much older?  You may have to use an Alternate install cd especially if you have under 256MB of RAM.

The disks are free though so no harm in trying.  I have successfully installed Debian on an old PII 350Mhz with 192MB of RAM.  Runs good.  Bogs down a bit on OO. 

[Marc57]

Hey Negeltu, It's an old win ME  machine with a 233 Mhz p2 and 256 MB of RAM and a 2 GB HD.

[Negeltu]

Yeah..that's pretty old.

I know that for Ubuntu 6.06 the minimum hdd space for a good desktop install was 3gigs with 256MB of RAM. 

I suppose you could do a server install which required much less space and then install xfce for a more light weight desktop environment.

These guys here will prob be more knowledgeable about it than me.  If it installs with the normal cd I don't think you will be happy with the speed of the system.

[Marc57]

Thanks Negeltu.