Dell Latitudes Ship with Mandriva Linux

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A Dell laptop computer that costs around $1,000, depending on configurations, and comes with the Mandriva Linux operating system pre-installed is now available, the European Linux company announced Friday.

The Dell Latitude 110L comes with Mandriva Linux Limited Edition 2005, WIFI, a 1.4-1.7 GHZ mobile Celeron or Pentium M, 256-1280MB of RAM, and a DVD Drive. According to Mandriva, Dell's rival Hewlett-Packard will follow suit.

A Dell spokesman in the U.S. said he was unfamiliar with the Mandriva configuration.

News source: ZDNet

View: Mandriva Press Release

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#1 fubarshibby on 19 Sep 2005 - 09:53

The only Latitude 110L I found on Dell's website was already out of program and only refurbished ones were available... I'd like to see this really happen though; Linux needs as much exposure as possible.

Edit: Ah, I found it on the UK site, but it doesn't mention Mandriva... Only Windows XP still... It'll probably come up later today. Then again, it's already 11AM there... I'm confused then. Ah well, I give up. I've got to get some sleep.

#2 Staind on 19 Sep 2005 - 11:58

I don't deem it promising.

#3 Marshalus on 19 Sep 2005 - 12:09

That's one small step for Tux, one giant leap for Penguin-kind.

(5 replies) #4 djnathanb on 19 Sep 2005 - 13:42

now why would anybody buy a laptop with linux on it? lol

#4.1 matt74441 on 19 Sep 2005 - 13:49

Because as someone who has spent many, many hours finding the perfect configuration and tweaking every setting on his laptop, it would be nice to have one that works perfectly out of the box.

#4.2 cyber_rigger on 19 Sep 2005 - 14:19

now why would anybody buy a laptop with linux on it? lol

Why would anyone want to post on a message board tha runs on Linux?

Netcraft.com

#4.3 djnathanb on 19 Sep 2005 - 14:48

cyber_rigger, a tool such as your self perhaps? we don't needto know thw ins and outs of what neowin is hosted on.

#4.4 Mathiasdm on 19 Sep 2005 - 20:42

And we don't need to know why people need to run Linux either.
Why? For exactly the same reason we don't need to know why people need to run Windows

#4.5 skinnyjm on 21 Sep 2005 - 04:16

"tool"...that's original!

#5 cyber_rigger on 19 Sep 2005 - 14:04

IMO Dell is just trying to get a better licensing deal from Microsoft.

"Dell does not officially support running Linux on Dell laptops."
http://linux.dell.com/desktops.shtml

If you want to buy a Linux computer
then try one of these companies.

http://www.addonshop.com/
http://www.emperorlinux.com/
http://www.ibexpc.com/
http://www.linare.com/
http://www.linspire.com/
http://www.linuxcertified.com/
http://www.microtelpc.com/
http://www.outpost.com/
http://shoprcubed.com/
http://www.sub300.com/
http://www.systemax.com/divisions.htm
http://www.walmart.com/
http://www.xandros.com/

http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed
http://www.linux.org/vendor/system/index.html

http://tuxmobil.org/ (general information)

#6 ripgut on 19 Sep 2005 - 14:28

anyways, what he failed to finish quoting of that is
". However, there are many great "community-supported" resources available to help you get Linux running. These links"
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/bo...rd.id=linuxport

#7 ripgut on 19 Sep 2005 - 14:33

Taht wasn't directed to you, failed in making that post correctly cyber. Excuse me

#8 kaffra on 19 Sep 2005 - 22:01

if its cheeper than a similar one configured with xp it would be great

edit: currently at dell.de latitude 110 with xp home starts from 753 euros

Last edited by 6507 on 19 Sep 2005 - 22:06

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