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Adamant1988
April 19th, 2007, 01:25 PM
We've all seen the news that Micheal Dell supposedly uses Ubuntu on his personal laptop, which many have come to take as a sign that Ubuntu will be pre-installed over other options.

So how should these pre installs be handled? Strictly LTS releases on new machines? I'm just interesting in hearing how you feel these OEM machines should be run.

Personally, I am more in favor of putting the latest stable release on the machines and making upgrading to the latest versions as fool-proof as possible. Although this will put extra strain on Canonical and the Ubuntu devs to meet that upgrading standard, I don't really feel it would be fair to customers to keep them too far behind the times.

Perhaps dell should adopt a policy of using Current Release -1 (so, Edgy now) in order to make sure they're using something reasonably up to date but more stable.

what are your thoughts on how this should be done?