Clippy is not amused, kid.
There were surely no parties in the corridors in Redmond when Dell Inc. announced plans this week to offer Ubuntu, an increasingly popular variety of the Linux operating system, as an option on consumer PCs.
But one eighth-grader in Shoreline was pretty happy.
Paul Bartell, 13, is looking forward to telling people "Hey, you can go to Dell and you can buy a computer from them" with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed."I think that will open up Linux to a lot more people, and a lot more people will learn about it," said Paul Bartell, 13, a devoted Ubuntu user. He's looking forward to telling people "Hey, you can go to Dell and you can buy a computer from them" with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed.
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Nice article, but fails to mention that Linux systems are largely untroubled by the spyware and viruses that infest Windows World. Not having to run crap such as Norton Antivirus makes your PC much faster and far more stable.