Dell releases its first Linux consumer product with Mandriva [LWN.net]

Mandriva has announced the availability of a Dell Laptop pre-loaded With Mandriva Linux. "Mandriva worked with Dell to certify this first consumer laptop, which is now being sold direct to students by Dell. The company ensured the optimum integration of its Mandriva Linux Limited Edition 2005 - a major hit in recent Linux downloads and reviews - with Dell's Latitude 110L. The certified computer is a WIFI 1,4 to 1,7 GHZ mobile Celeron or Pentium M, with 256 to 1280 MB of ram, and a DVD Drive."

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See it here on Dell France website

Posted Sep 16, 2005 19:25 UTC (Fri) by Felix_the_Mac (guest, #32242) [Link] (3 responses)

http://tinyurl.com/7nl2h

But you can get the same machine cheaper with XP

Posted Sep 16, 2005 20:00 UTC (Fri) by Felix_the_Mac (guest, #32242) [Link] (2 responses)

... if your are a UK school you can get the following deal:

http://tinyurl.com/a2vyq

for 399GBP = 595 Euro

whereas the Linux version costs 759 euro (in France)

But you can get the same machine cheaper with XP

Posted Sep 16, 2005 21:43 UTC (Fri) by xorbe (guest, #3165) [Link] (1 responses)

Look closely.

1M-cache PentiumM vs Celeron, DVD-RW vs DVD, etc

But you can get the same machine cheaper with XP

Posted Sep 16, 2005 22:05 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link]

Also, the first price quoted does not include taxes; with VAT it's 469 GBP = 695 Euro. More in line with the configuration.

Dell releases its first Linux consumer product with Mandriva

Posted Sep 18, 2005 17:39 UTC (Sun) by pr1268 (guest, #24648) [Link]

This is incredibly good news. Although (based on my understanding of Mandriva's press release) this is targeted for Europeans, it represents a paradigm shift towards giving consumers a choice in which operating system they can purchase with a computer. I still dream of a day when anybody can walk into a big box retail store and see a selection of computers with more than just one OS available (and no, Windows XP Home, Pro, and Media Center DON'T count as three choices!).

Kudos to Mandriva and Dell.

Dell releases its first Linux consumer product with Mandriva

Posted Sep 19, 2005 6:49 UTC (Mon) by hingo (guest, #14792) [Link]

Who still remembers this:

http://lwn.net/Articles/92527/

After that announcement, Dell (obviously) got a phone call from Redmond, after which they were quick to announce that they are not at all selling laptops with Linux preloaded, that this was just a random Italian company who happened to use Dell laptops to independently do just that. Let's see if they stick with this announcement after tomorrow. If they do, they've gotten bolder.