Dell Will Offer Wnidows XP And Linux
Dell Computer is bringing back the Windows XP operating system in response to consumer demand. They are also shipping Linux operating systems. Windows Vista is not faring all that well, it would seem.
Dell, like many computer makers, stopped offering XP on most home desktops and laptops soon after Vista launched at the end of January. By late March, the company said only two models aimed at home users could be configured with XP (the option still existed on many models for business users).
But on Dell's IdeaStorm Web site, where visitors can post suggestions for the company and vote on the ones they think are important, a plea titled "Don't eliminate XP just yet" racked up more than 10,700 votes.
"We heard you loud and clear on bringing the Windows XP option back to our Dell consumer PC offerings," Dell responded in a Web posting Thursday.
The company said it will immediately offer XP again an option for four models of its Inspiron notebooks and two models of its Dimension desktop PCs.
I wasn't able to find which Linux system they are shipping in a brief look at the Dell site, but it might be Red Hat, judging by product offerings. So far, I've found Ubuntu fairly easy to work with and absolutely rock-solid stable. I haven't tried Red Hat. (The new release of Ubuntu, 7.04 is available now, incidentally.)
Geek Stuff | Gaius Friday, 20 April , 2007
By TC@LeatherPenguin, Friday, 20 April , 2007 @ 9:34 am
My Wife just took delivery of a Dell Latitude D620 with XP Pro (SP2) installed. The machine had enough RAM and such to deal with Vista, but the techies at her job (agreeing with my opinion, which was immediately discarded because I first told her “just by a Macbook Pro”) said point blank: “If you buy it with Vista, you’re on your own. We are not supporting it for the foreseeable future.”