| Dell's Ubuntu PCs won't include Windows emulation |
May 04, 2007
Dell does not plan to include software such as Wine, which lets users run Windows programs on Linux, with its PCs that will soon be preloaded Ubuntu Linux. "I do not want to position Ubuntu and Linux as a cheap alternative to Windows," Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth told eWEEK.com.
The CEO of the popular distribution's commercial parent, Canonical, Ltd., made the remark in an interview with eWEEK's Peter Galli following the May 1 announcement that Dell plans to preload Ubuntu on some consumer machines.
"While Linux is an alternative to Windows, it is not cheap Windows," Shuttleworth reportedly said. "Linux has its own strengths, and users should want it because of those strengths and not because it's a cheap copy of Windows."
Shuttleworth explained to Galli that he could only imagine running a Windows application on Ubuntu as a temporary strategy -- part of a migration platform and not as the way of the future, "which could well be free software."
To read Galli's entire interview with Shuttleworth, go here.
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