Ask any fan of Linux about the on-again, off-again relationship Dell has had with the flagship open-source platform, and you'll get mostly negative reactions. There's a reason for that. Every time ...

Dell is getting ready to sell PCs that support Linux, but the manufacturer says it will continue its policy of always providing an operating system. Many users are calling on PC vendors to supply ...

After Linus Torvalds admits he bought a Dell XPS-13 with Ubuntu Linux for his daughter, Dell Technologies' Developer Community manager Barton George has told the Linux/open-source conference All ...

Almost exactly one year ago, I made the following suggestion in the wake of Dell's long-awaited decision to offer ready-configured GNU/Linux systems alongside the usual panoply of Windows systems: we ...

Dell has refuted Microsoft’s claims that returns of netbooks loaded with Linux are considerably higher than those running Windows. Speaking at OpenSource World, Todd Finch, Dell’s senior product ...

Dell Computer has ceased shipping Linux on its desktop and notebook PCs. Citing slow demand for the operating system on client PCs over the last several quarters, a Dell spokesman said the PC maker ...

Dell became a hero to Linux fans worldwide when it announced last week that it would begin selling PCs loaded with the Linux operating system instead of Microsoft 's Windows. Microsoft and Novell last ...

After floating the possibility last month that it might begin selling some of its laptops and desktop PCs preloaded with Linux, Dell Inc. today said that it will definitely offer Linux on select ...

Computer maker Dell has chosen Ubuntu as the operating system for its range of Linux computers for consumers. Fans of Linux hope that the move will persuade more mainstream PC users to abandon ...

Almost two years ago, we closed out our review of Dell’s first Linux-powered Developer Edition laptop with some words of wisdom from my former uber-sysadmin mentor, a fellow named Rick, with whom I ...

Today Dell announced its official re-entry into the Linux laptop market. Project Sputnik, first announced in May, is graduating from Dell’s internal incubator program into a real product. According to ...

After collecting some 1,800 new product and service ideas from IT users and customers using an online “suggestion box,” Dell Inc. has announced that it’s taking the user suggestions seriously and will ...