I was intrigued as to how cheap I could buy a Dell PC with Ubuntu's GNU/Linux pre-installed.
It doesn't seem that Dell really want to ship systems without Windows. I randomly selected 3 desktop machines spanning the price range, tried to customise without that software virus vector called windows but none of the systems I looked at offered an option for Ubuntu.
I was wanting to find out what the price difference was between Windows and Linux pre-installed. I have a vague memory from years ago that Dell1.0 with Redhat was about the same price as MS.
I even tried searching Dell's site for 'Ubuntu' - zero hits in products
Sorry, but I don't have time to look any further, I will go and visit my favourite hardware vendor online http://www.alternate.de/ (make sure you get .de and not .com!)
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Dell don't make it easy
I was intrigued as to how cheap I could buy a Dell PC with Ubuntu's GNU/Linux pre-installed.
It doesn't seem that Dell really want to ship systems without Windows. I randomly selected 3 desktop machines spanning the price range, tried to customise without that software virus vector called windows but none of the systems I looked at offered an option for Ubuntu.
I was wanting to find out what the price difference was between Windows and Linux pre-installed. I have a vague memory from years ago that Dell1.0 with Redhat was about the same price as MS.
I even tried searching Dell's site for 'Ubuntu' - zero hits in products
Sorry, but I don't have time to look any further, I will go and visit my favourite hardware vendor online http://www.alternate.de/ (make sure you get .de and not .com!)