Dell has offered Ubuntu based laptops in the past and not really advertised
them much and recently they came out with new XPS models that run the latest
Ubuntu. I don't know how well they are selling, but it was good to some that
a big vendor supported GNU/Linux in some way.
I then read about Microsoft investing $2 billion into Dell to help them
privatize and there are rumors going around that part of the initiative was
to stop Dell from carrying Ubuntu laptops and also stop dell from offering
hardware support for GNU/Linux as a whole. I don't know if Dell offers Ubuntu
as well on server setups, but any server admin knows how to setup a
distribution without help from a company like Dell.
Here is my source:
http://blogs.computerworld.com/windows/21745/did-fear-linux-spark-microsofts-investment-dell
"...influence hardware designs in a post-PC world while protecting itself
from the growing influence of Linux-based operating systems in mobile devices
and servers...It may also be an attempt to secure the partnership and to stop
the PC maker from looking toward alternative operating systems like Linux."
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