Ubuntu7.10 officially released Dell pre-installed

Ubuntu was released in. As one of the most popular Linux operating system products, Ubuntu has been well received in recent years. Dell confirmed it was about to release Laptops and Desktops pre-installed with the latest UbuntuLinux desktop system. Earlier this year, Dell said it would launch preinstalled Linux products to reduce the cost of purchasing the software. Moreover, the improvements made by UbuntuLinux In the ease of use of the software have been gradually recognized by consumers. For Dell competitors, HP

Ubuntu 7.10 was released in October 18. As one of the most popular Linux operating system products, Ubuntu has been well received in recent years. Dell confirmed it was about to release Laptops and Desktops pre-installed with the latest Ubuntu Linux Desktop System.

Earlier this year, Dell said it would launch products preinstalled with Linux to reduce the cost of purchasing Ubuntu Linux. In addition, improvements to the ease of use of software have been gradually recognized by consumers. For Dell's competitors, such as Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, and Acer, we have launched preinstalled Linux products, but different release versions are used.

Pre-installed Linux systems can bring benefits to Dell, maybe not directly, but if pre-installed Linux systems bring about savings in user costs, it may be very attractive to consumers. In China, HP is still preinstalled with the Chinese Red Flag Linux release on low-end products to reduce the sales cost of some products in China, but due to some general factors in China, these computers soon became Microsoft Windows products.

However, Dell is confident in winning Ubuntu 7.10. "We will provide Ubuntu 7.10 pre-installed products," Anne Camden from Dell communications confirmed the problem in an interview. "For consumers, if they are willing to upgrade their existing Ubuntu system, we suggest they access the relevant content on our wiki ." This page will be accessible after the official release of Ubuntu in October 18.

For Dell preinstalled with Ubuntu Linux products, we have not yet determined when to ship them. "This is the same as when other operating systems are released, dell needs time to detect the situation of the system on Dell products and optimize some products, "Camden introduced.

John Hull, the manager of Dell Linux System Engineers, said: "Over the past few months, we have concentrated on solving major hardware feature support and stability issues around Ubuntu 7.10," Hull wrote, "This includes a large number of tests, authentication, vulnerability correction, and cooperation with the Ubuntu community on operating system error correction."

"Particularly, in our many tests, graphics capabilities, wired and wireless networks, sleep and standby features, laptop cameras, sound, and touch version mouse support, etc, have been improved. If there are many examples like this, we have also tested the smooth upgrade of the system, in order to ensure that Dell users can smoothly perform the upgrade of the operating system. Ubuntu products should also be like in the past. Our goal is to enable Ubuntu 7.10 to work on standby once installed on compatible hardware. I believe that the current consumer will have a very good user experience on this operating system. : Hull is added.

DelL not only made a lot of technical preparations, "the entire team spent a lot of time communicating with end users, reading community and media comments, and organizing through DelL team brainstorming, then, we fed back to the Dell and Ubuntu Linux communities. To learn how we can enhance the requirements that our users will meet in our Ubuntu Linux, "Hell concluded, "Our purpose is to satisfy our users."

"In the future, we will provide more information for these product plans around the pre-installed Ubuntu7.10, including the customer service system, supported hardware features, and time periods and countries and regions. Please be patient ". At the same time, Dell also contributed to the release of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, Dell's DKMS (Dynamic Kernerl Module Support Dynamic kernel Module) it is an easy-to-use Smooth upgrade driver Method for Linux Desktop Users.

At present, it has been added to Matt Domsch in Ubuntu 7.10. In September, Dell's Linux technical strategy Director stated that "Ubuntu packaging and mkdeb commands have been accepted by Ubuntu ." "Dell is not simply selling Ubuntu on its system, but also working with the community to improve the system.

However, Dell has exported the sales code on its sales system. In an interview, Ubuntu Foundation investor Mark Shuttleworth said, "Ubuntu and Dell are very excited to see That Dell sells Ubuntu-supported systems ", shuttleworth believes that Ubuntu has been able to stick to it in Dell's system. He is telling us that Ubuntu is ready to compete with Windows on these products.