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. . . absolutely nobody, I'd imagine: it looks like Dell will go with Ubuntu when they start selling Linux PCs.

It was the logical choice: Unlike Debian, Gentoo, Slackware & co, it's run by a businessman and so less prone to internal politics; and unlike Suse, Red Hat & co, it's completely free.

Yeah, I know, there's free (as in beer) distros available from Novell & RH, but that's beside the point. With Ubuntu, there's no difference between what home users download for free and what companies pay to install & run. AFAIK, OpenSUSE and Fedora can't make that claim.

And besides, a standard Ubuntu install uses less resources than a standard install of the others, because of the "One app. per task" philosophy. (I mostly like this, but when it means you don't get Firefox if you install Kubuntu because Konqueror is already there. . .)

And at the risk of getting flamed for saying so, RPMs still aren't as good as apt-get. Frankly, after the 'fun' I had with Red Hat a few years ago, I'd take manually compiling from source over RPM. I did just that, in fact, when I used LFS for a while...

Mind you, I'll be surprised if Dell's Ubuntu is completely standard. Whatever else you may say about Ubuntu's desktop, you can't say it's exciting. Why, why, why did they decide brown and grey would be the best colours for a desktop??? Vista is as ugly as sin, but at least the wallpaper makes it look excitingly new and interesting.

Until you start the first app, anyway.