Intel Reverts Plans, Will Not Support Ubuntu's XMir

[ninez]

If there wasn't any market, then dell would not be selling it.

There is a market. Will desktop linux ever be as big as windows? No, no desktop OS will, but that doesn't mean that there is zero market for desktop linux and that its impossible for desktop linux to have any measure of success.

I think his comment was made, in the cotext of this;

On February 5, 2013 Dell announced a leveraged buyout by founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners, with additional funding from Microsoft. The deal is pending shareholder approval as of March 2013."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell

...meaning he thinks that now that Microsoft has a larger stake in Dell, we may just see Ubuntu becoming less and less of interest to that Company. But as of yet, I am not aware of any actual sign of this happening... <although, i wouldn't be surprised all that much, if something did happen. but who knows>...

[johnc]

Windows 8 contains spyware and NSA backdoors. It's an user-hostile system.

What backdoors have been found in Windows 8?

[Ramiliez]

I think his comment was made, in the cotext of this;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell

...meaning he thinks that now that Microsoft has a larger stake in Dell, we may just see Ubuntu becoming less and less of interest to that Company. But as of yet, I am not aware of any actual sign of this happening... <although, i wouldn't be surprised all that much, if something did happen. but who knows>...

I went to dell.com selected laptop and ultrabooks clicked on Operating System and i saw no Ubuntu there.

[johnc]

I went to dell.com selected laptop and ultrabooks clicked on Operating System and i saw no Ubuntu there.

IIRC all they have left is a developer laptop and that Alienware gaming machine. This is probably Dell throwing a bone to Ubuntu. I doubt they're making any money on these things.












(Because nobody wants them.)

[chrisb]

What backdoors have been found in Windows 8?

Windows Update and the Windows Driver Model. Whoever has the master key for those can inject kernel-level exploit code into any Windows machine in the world.

Given the revelations so far, a non-US government would have to be crazy to continue relying on Windows for confidential operations.

[juanrga]

How so? A CPU is a CPU.

AMD CPU's are power hungry & inefficient compared to Intel CPUs.

And still Intel is trying to caught AMD jaguar CPUs in efficiency and total power consumption. LOL

[ninez]

I went to dell.com selected laptop and ultrabooks clicked on Operating System and i saw no Ubuntu there.

How about typing "Ubuntu" into Dell''s searchbar?

http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?s=bsd&c=us&l=en&cs=04&cat=all&k=ubuntu

or this; http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd this model / recent offering is aimed at developers though, not so much your average user.... But obviously, Dell owns AlienWare - which offers Ubuntu, as well; http://www.alienware.com/ubuntu/ ...

No idea how popular either is though. But i am doubtful that pre-installed Ubuntu is wildy or even moderately successful...and it is possible that with Microsoft having a larger stake in the Company, maybe the Ubuntu support may dwindle, but again, who knows..

[LinuxGamer]

IIRC all they have left is a developer laptop and that Alienware gaming machine. This is probably Dell throwing a bone to Ubuntu. I doubt they're making any money on these things.


(Because nobody wants them.)

the developer laptop has Ubuntu on top of Windows its for cloud server development

[LinuxGamer]

How about typing "Ubuntu" into Dell''s searchbar?

http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?s=bsd&c=us&l=en&cs=04&cat=all&k=ubuntu

or this; http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd this model / recent offering is aimed at developers though, not so much your average user.... But obviously, Dell owns AlienWare - which offers Ubuntu, as well; http://www.alienware.com/ubuntu/ ...

No idea how popular either is though. But i am doubtful that pre-installed Ubuntu is wildy or even moderately successful...and it is possible that with Microsoft having a larger stake in the Company, maybe the Ubuntu support may dwindle, but again, who knows..

how many users buy it do to it being cheaper and put XP on it or Mint lol

[johnc]

how many users buy it do to it being cheaper and put XP on it or Mint lol

How much cheaper is it?