I’ve written before about how Dell should at a minimum standardize on one release of Ubuntu for use across all of their Ubuntu computers, preferably with the latest release of Ubuntu.

In order to clarify some confusion, Dell explained why they are choosing not to upgrade to a newer version of Ubuntu. Basically, they don’t think that the average consumer cares what version of Ubuntu they get and using the LTS will keep costs down and increase stability. If a few features are needed, they can be backported.

This position makes perfect sense, except that it doesn’t seem consistent with the rest of what Dell is doing, since they are currently selling exactly one notebook with Ubuntu 9.10, which is neither the LTS or the newest release.

I agree with what Dell says most of the time, but sometimes what they do isn’t consistent.

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