But Dell still recommends Window$

Posted Sep 16, 2007 0:32 UTC (Sun) by salimma (subscriber, #34460)
In reply to: But Dell still recommends Window$ by jordanb
Parent article: Dell produces customized Ubuntu Linux for customers (DesktopLinux)

Dell offers SLES and RHEL on servers / workstations. Rather schizophrenic, if you ask me -- I'd like to see Fedora or Red Hat Desktop offered for home desktops, and conversely, don't see why they could not offer Ubuntu LTS for business offerings.

Not at all schizophrenic

Posted Sep 16, 2007 3:31 UTC (Sun) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

It's a matter of support. Red Hat and Novell are eager to support their server distros, and Red Hat in particular is not interested in providing commercial support for the desktop, and certainly not for laptops. Canonical is proving support to Dell's customers for Ubuntu on the desktop and laptop.

Now, I run Fedora 7 on a Dell laptop myself; it can be done and works pretty well. But it shouldn't surprise anyone that Dell chose Ubuntu, because it all has to do with a company being ready, willing, and able to back them up.