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July 27, 2010
Dell Narrows Ubuntu Offerings Online
By Michael Marr
Dell's move to make Ubuntu available over a large segment of their consumer Desktop and Mobile PCs has become common place and provided a huge platform on which *nix systems grew more socially acceptable personal operating systems.

However, Dell has recently removed this option from almost all their online offerings.

Currently, only select laptop and netbook models are available with Ubuntu on Dell's website. Apparently, Dell still offers Ubuntu on the same range of products, but chose to remove the option from their website ordering system to simplify the ordering process. This move seems counter intuitive, as the level of user that would prefer and specifically seek to order a computer with Ubuntu OS pre-installed (as identified by Dell themselves) would not be apt to call the Dell sales team to place an order.

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