In February of this year Dell Computers launched a website called IdeaStorm as a forum for customers to contribute ideas for future Dell product offerings. The IdeaStorm concept is a brilliant one in that for the first time a major computer manufacturer has allowed normal end-users to contribute to the production of the latest Dell hardware.
A quick visit to the IdeaStorm site shows that of the top 15 voted on ideas 8 of them are ideas relating to Linux and Open Source Software proving that Linux and OSS are starting to compete with the proprietary software giants in a very serious way.
The most discussed idea and feedback that customers gave was the need for Linux on desktops and notebooks and amazingly Dell listened. So much so that on 1 May Dell announced a partnership with Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, to offer the latest Ubuntu 7.04 release on select consumer desktop and notebook products.
These Ubuntu systems will be available in the coming weeks to customers in the United States with no clear date on when it will be available to South African consumers however this is seriously a move in the right direction and I may even consider buying a Dell for myself when they ship them here.
Thanks to Dell I am able to include the following video in which Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth talks about why he started Ubuntu, Linux adoption rate trends, how previous barriers to Linux adoption for mainstream users are improving, and more.
As always, thanks for reading.
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