Dell: We do not care about Linux Enthusiasts

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Although Canonical released the Ubuntu 9.04 nearly a month back, we were still waiting to hear something about updating the Linux netbooks from Dell to the latest version. Now, the news has come that they won’t be offering the newer version to the users. Why?

“We are trying to stay on a 12-month cadence to keep costs down, and build a stable platform,”

“A mainstream user does not care if it’s [Ubuntu Linux] 8.04 or 8.10 or 9.04 (he/she does not know what those are)—she just wants it to work right and be stable/safe…Most of the Linux enthusiasts would not like to be so far behind (i.e., 8.04 vs. 9.04), but they are not our primary target audience for the [operating system] image.”

“In addition to 8.04, we chose to control our updates (via our own update repository—similar to MS update). We go the extra mile in double qualifying all updates (that one would see in stock 8.10 and 9.04) and only publish those that are rock-stable. We will [put in] select features over the course of the year that make sense for the product, like wireless improvements,”

Whatever Dell says, but noone is stopping you to install the latest version of Ubuntu. It is better and faster than the previous versions of Ubuntu. So, why not give it a try?

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