Dell takes Ubuntu-equipped Inspiron 1525 international, Americans wait

Ubuntu lovers, rejoice. The Round Rock powerhouse has saw fit to add the open-source OS to yet another one of its products, this time the recently released Inspiron 1525. No surprises here -- just a vanilla 1525 with Ubuntu 7.10 loaded in along with built-in DVD playback capabilities and a warm, fuzzy feeling to boot. It should be noted, however, that US users will be forced to wait until "later this month" before being able to snap up one of these rigs, while consumers in the UK, France, Spain and Germany can indulge right away.

[Kasi Viswanath Posted Feb 19th 2008 9:13AM]

This news is awesome. Hopefully, they will start selling them in India too soon. Indians love Open Source.

[insertAlias Posted Feb 19th 2008 10:52AM]

@Dhanik
You type out all your other words (including the apostrophes in your contractions, no less) and yet you use "u"?

Texting has destroyed a generation.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2008 11:51AM]

@Dhanik

Take your bigotry elsewhere.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2008 9:15AM]

Any word on price?

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2008 9:37AM]

The 1525 is a nice laptop, even saddled with Vista. Coming factory-installed with Ubuntu is awesome news.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2008 9:53AM]

It should come with a dual boot from Dell. Vista and Ubuntu!

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2008 1:23PM]

or you could just install windows to dual boot after buying it

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2008 12:25PM]

Nuts, and not long after I'd gone and bought the Ubuntu-preinstalled 1420N. Oh well, hopefully this will be updated with the Montevina chipset come August.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2008 2:47PM]

Eh.. Isn't this the laptop where people claim Hackintosh runs perfectly without any problems?

Quad booting FTW!
(FreeBSD, Windows XP, OS X, and Ubuntu, even though I never used Ubuntu, I've heard good things about it. I'm a FreeBSD fanboy.)

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2008 4:03PM]

But 40% of all OpenBSD installs lead to shark attacks.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 19th 2008 4:37PM]

Thanks for the recognition. Ongoing support of the Linux community allows us to continue to make products like this available.