Originally posted by ethana2
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I'd also think that Dell could do best for Linux in general by doing the best for the greatest number of Dell's Ubuntu customers. Offering the latest LTS as their one true officially supported Distro is quite likely that. Those of you who know the benefits of the bleeding edge are quite capable of installing (and maintaining) it yourself, and Dell knows it. Heck, just knowing that 8.04 LTS is fully supported on the hardware before you buy is a big sigh of relief factor right there.
But the Linux newbies, the folks who innocently buy a Mini-9 because they wanted a cheap netbook and "had heard some good things about Linux, so I thought I'd give it a try" -- what about them? That's where LTS and Dell's Help Desk can make a critical difference. I'm not Dell. They may look at 9.04 and conclude that 2x boot-time speedup (which is all those critical newbies are likely to notice) is worth the support risk, and go for it. But I wouldn't hold my breath.
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