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____/ bbgruff on Thursday 15 Oct 2009 13:08 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Dell C.E.O. Promises PC Love Affair but Has a Backup Plan
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>> | Dell released a laptop last month that uses Linux
>> | and a minimotherboard to give customers near
>> | instant access to things like their e-mail and the
>> | Web. That is to say, people can ignore Windows
>> | altogether by just using this instant-on system to
>> | do their daily tasks. In Dellâs own studies, people
>> | spent 70 percent of their time in this instant-on
>> | world rather than booting up Windows when they were
>> | at home.
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> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/dell-ceo-promises-pc-love-affair-but-has-a-backup-plan/
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>> Recent:
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>> Dell's Ubuntu 9.04 Offers More Changes
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>> | In a blog post on Direct2Dell, Dell's
>> | John Hull has commented on some of the
>> | technical changes to be found with those
>> | Dell systems shipping with Ubuntu 9.04
>> | "Jaunty Jackalope" -- including those
>> | that are available with Ubuntu Moblin
>> | Remix.
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>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzU5Mw
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>> Ubuntu Linux 9.04 - Technical Details
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>> | I'd like to give a quick update on the
>> | technical details for what we have added
>> | with our 9.04 release. We have continued
>> | to build and improve upon on what we did
>> | for our previous Ubuntu offerings, and
>> | here are some of the highlights:
>> |
>> | * We now provide Cyberlink's PowerDVD
>> | application for DVD playback (instead
>> | of LinDVD which we previously
>> | shipped). We also continue to provide
>> | Fluendo GStreamer codecs for mp3,
>> | wma, and wmv playback, which will
>> | work with your favorite Linux media
>> | player.
>> |
>> | [...]
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> http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2009/10/09/ubuntu-linux-904-technical-details.aspx
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> My recollection is that Dell said " *up* "to* 70%..."
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> It's all good stuff, but let's Get the Facts right? :-)
I was looking only at the statement from Vance at NYT. I never heard of it before.
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