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Dell India has announced it will soon launch personal computers based on the free Linux distro, Ubuntu. Dell has entered into a partnership with Canonical Ltd., the sponsor of the Ubuntu project, to sell netbooks and laptops with the open source software.

Ubuntu-based devices, including the Dell Inspiron 14R and 15R, will be available in the market from this week. Also, a number of new Dell models with Ubuntu are slated to release this year. Dell currently sells PCs loaded with Microsoft's Windows operating system, which is a paid software. While talking to the media, Silber said the partnership will help the company increase penetration in the country.


Ubuntu is a computer OS based on the Debian Linux distribution and is distributed as free and open source software. Ubuntu uses its own desktop ecosystem. Though majority of Ubuntu is based on desktop personal computers, it is also used for cloud computing. To know more about Ubuntu, head on to its Wikipedia page.

Interestingly, Dell's decision to launch Ubuntu-based personal computers comes shortly after Microsoft announced its foray into the hardware segment via its Surface tablets.