http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/ Engadget Comments for Acer about to offer Ubuntu pre-loads? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/Jul 31st 2007 4:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/
I'm not surprised if Acer start preloading Ubuntu, they've maintained Linux drivers for most/all of their product line over the last couple of years for any after-purchase Linux installs people might wish to try. It's a pretty useful service.]]>Jul 31st 2007 4:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/Jul 31st 2007 5:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/
I just posted yesterday about a capable machine I built from spare parts that's running Ubuntu Linux like a champ!

-when even a tweaked and trimmed Windows XP made it run like a chump.

I also applaud their efforts!

The only thing that's "outdated" is your mode of thinking when it comes to personal computers and the ACTUAL roles they play.]]>Jul 31st 2007 7:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/Jul 31st 2007 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/
IMO, it's like a clearance "sale" (the pricepoint isn't really helping that), and to help drive the price down they load them with Ubuntu.

The thing is, I can get a better laptop with current generation hardware for a little more than a grand and I'm getting a discounted Vista license along with it.
Worth every extra dollar because I know it will last longer than a Pentium-based laptop.

Acer's Ubuntu offering, given that this isn't a Photoshop or a fake (creating an image like that isn't exactly hard to make...), cannot properly compete with Dell's current Ubuntu offerings or their future ones for that matter.

The fact that Linux is less resource-demanding is not an argument to put last-generation hardware back on the market for the sake of selling computers pre-loaded with it. As I've said, it looks a lot more like a "clearance" sale than anything else.]]>Jul 31st 2007 5:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/Jul 31st 2007 6:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/
You can use a Mac (which isn't any cheaper BTW), or build your own PC and put Linux on it.

The thing, is that people just prefer Windows. It works with lots of stuff, not so hard to use, and it works great for what it does. To me, and many others, Windows is a perfectly sound choice. ]]>Jul 31st 2007 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/Jul 31st 2007 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/
think that's awesome of Acer and that more companies should follow suit(grammer and spelling). Maybe this will be the start of a brand new OS competition that might just make MS actually try to do well on the first time. Plus it will help to expose some of the crowd to Linux and free OSs.

AKBlade13]]>Jul 31st 2007 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/Jul 31st 2007 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/acer-about-to-offer-ubuntu-pre-loads/Jul 31st 2007 5:26PM