Ubuntu + Dell = The Ultimate Ultraportable?
It’s been a pretty incredible year for open source on the desktop.
Dell has started selling some of its PCs with Ubuntu pre-installed, which means that even non-technical users can acquire a low-cost, powerful open source system without needing to worry about installation and handling drivers and suchlike.
The arrival of the Asus Eee PC, which created a new class of ultraportables that routinely run GNU/Linux – and which run Windows Vista not at all – has brought GNU/Linux to attention of millions of people who might otherwise never have heard the phrase (even the Sun newspaper has been writing about it without further explanation).
