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"They'll be selling these models from their Web site with Ubuntu pre-installed. Canonical in turn will be working with Dell to certify those models to insure that all components are fully functional and will also provide support that will be sold through the Dell Web site."
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These and other business-related decisions probably played a large role in the choice. SUSE, for example, would come from <shudder> Novell, which has all kinds of legal and business baggage. Similar for RedHat/Fedora. Mandriva probably doesn't have the support network Ubuntu has. I suspect most of the other distributions fit into the Mandriva category, as well, with a couple of exceptions from the SUSE category.
At least it's gonna be out in the mainstream, now. Wait for the critics ...