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[[!meta title="News 2013-01-22"]]
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## Dell sells Notebook with Ubuntu on it
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As all of you know, Ubuntu is the Linux distro being mostly marketed
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currently. Dell, on the other hand has trouble staying in the business
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and rumours say that Dell is searching for some investors.
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Thus it's interesting to hear that
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[Dell is now selling the XPS 13" with Ubuntu on it](http://www.dell.com/us/soho/p/xps-13-linux/pd?dgc=AF&cid=6504&lid=167784&acd=240157118117280)
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## Linux is (becoming) a gaming plattform
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Various different news show you an interesting movement for 2013:
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Android (and thus Linux) is becoming a gaming plattform:
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[Valve ported Steam to Linux](http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2012/07/17/valve-steam-linux/)
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and begins to
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[promote Linux to Windows users](http://www.geek.com/articles/games/valve-starts-promoting-steam-for-linux-to-windows-users-20130121/).
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[The Ouya console is successfully being developed](http://www.ouya.tv/)
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and even [they have a competitor, the GameStick](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/872297630/gamestick-the-most-portable-tv-games-console-ever), which is also based on Android.
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## Microsoft to (finally) die
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Thanks to the decreasing PC market and people focussing on swiping around their
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tablets (instead of doing real work [tm]), Microsoft got a hard time.
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It even got so worse that they are selling Windows 8 for almost nothing. But hey,
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who wants a disease for free anyway?
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Seeing the Nokia/Microsoft deal in which Nokia agreed to build Windows phones is
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like seeing someone betting on a dying horse, but it is worse than that:
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Why would you get a Windows phone, if you can buy an Android or IOS based phone?
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Reading about
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[Microsoft probably selling the
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Xbox](http://www.geek.com/articles/games/analyst-believes-microsoft-will-sell-off-xbox-division-maybe-even-to-sony-20130121/) gives another indicator for someone totally being frustrated - probably
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realising the good times are over.
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This hasn't though changed the FUD approach of Microsoft, which
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is [infamously known for their Anti-Campaings](msad.jpg) like the new
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[scroogled](http://www.scroogled.com/) one.
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## Cdist gets its own domain
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Suggestions to FOSS I write or maintain is highly appreciated.
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Getting a domain for [[software/cdist|cdist]] was proposed and will
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soon be activated.
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[[!tag cdist unix foss news ubuntu]]
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