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How Ubuntu Linux snuck into high-end Dell laptops (and why it's called 'Project Sputnik') https://zdnet.com/article/how-ubuntu-linux-snuck-into-high-end-dell-laptops-and-why-its-called-project-sputnik/ by @sjvn
Dell and Canonical Ubuntu #Linux go together like bread and butter. Here's how that happened.
@sjvn been secretly coveting one of those xpses for years and years. Not the ones with the nostril cameras though.
@sjvn The company I worked for was one of those running RHEL on Dell hardware since the aughts. Basically as soon as distributed computing on Linux became reliable enough. The developer desktops may not have been "volume" for Dell, but the thousands of CPUs in the server room must have counted for something.
@sjvn I am using Linux Mint, an Ubuntu based distro, as you probably already know.