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Michael Dell uses Ubuntu on his Home Laptop

What kind of laptop does Michael Dell use at home? See for yourself. This is the laptop and peripherals Michael is using right now.

Michael Dell's Ubuntu Laptop

Hardware:

  • Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 Processor
  • 4GB DDR2 667Mhz DRAM
  • 17" WXGA+ Widescreen LCD
  • 160GB 7200rpm SATA hard drive
  • 8X DVD +/- RW optical drive
  • NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500 512MB

Software:

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

 

     Just another laptop - right? Not quite - check out the Operating System that is installed on Michael Dell’s laptop - it is newest version of Ubuntu, 7.04 Feisty Fawn. This is no Vista, not even Windows XP - it’s Linux! If Michael Dell, the founder and CEO of the #1 Laptop/PC market player Dell Inc., is using Linux, then what are you, my dear reader, planning to use within next 5 years?

    The only answer that is not "Linux" would be "Mac", but hey, OS/X is FreeBSD 5 (the process model, network stack, and virtual file system) which is Unix :)

to see the full list of computers (including the above) that Mr. Dell uses go to dell’s official site


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3 Responses to “Michael Dell uses Ubuntu on his Home Laptop”

  1. Seems to me like a pure marketing strategy

  2. Notice VMWare Workstation 6 Beta…I bet he spends all his time in his virtual install of Windows Xp ;)

  3. he he, yea - using IE and M$ Office..

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