Linux Compatible

Dell PowerEdge 2550 (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Debian GNU/Linux,Ubuntu Linux and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2009-12-15 22:26:41 by Anonymous running Debian GNU/Linux:
You need do nothing special to use these little beauties under Linux of any kind. I've used Gentoo, RedHat, FreeBSD and Debian on these machines with absolutely no problems.

Dell Dimension 9200 (4)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Ubuntu Linux,Linux other,Fedora Core,SUSE Linux,Red Hat Linux/RHEL,CentOS,Gentoo Linux and has a average rating of 4

The last rating (4) has been submitted on 2009-09-11 08:45:59 by Anonymous running Ubuntu Linux:
This system was released in August of 2006 (I think), and uses the new core 2 Duo, and I believe a new Intel chipset. Not surprisingly, there are some problems using it with versions of Linux released before that time. Ubuntu 6.06 will load on the system, and most functions did appear to work. However, the onboard ethernet controller (an intel gbit interface) is not detected. I was able to get the system working with an older PCI ethernet card. I also tried test release Ubuntu 6.10 Knot 3. This correctly found the onboard ethernet card, so I assume the official 6.10 release will be fine when it comes out. Sound and USB worked fine. The DVD drive seems to work, but I had a lot of trouble getting the system to boot from the drive. I usually had to hit F12 to go to the boot menu, then tell it to boot from the DVD, which would always fail at least once. If I tried it multiple times, it would eventually work. This may be a problem with my system, I find it hard to believe this applies to all systems.

D810 laptop (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Fedora Core and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2007-01-07 14:14:22 by Anonymous running Fedora Core:
Works great

D810 (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Ubuntu Linux and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2006-11-19 17:33:03 by Anonymous running Ubuntu Linux:
Ubuntu Edgy (6.10)

Dell Inspiron 6000 (4)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Ubuntu Linux and has a average rating of 4

The last rating (4) has been submitted on 2005-11-22 00:37:29 by karro494 running Ubuntu Linux:
There is no driver for the built-in SD card reader. As far as I know, no one is currently working on such a driver. I really miss that slot! All other hardware on this machine works perfectly. I haven't tried the pcmcia slot yet, though. I had to manually load the i8k module to get fan speed control to work. Just add the it to /etc/modules and it will be loaded on boot. To enable automatic fan control, also make sure that the flag --auto is appended to the variable I8KMON_ARGS in /etc/init.d/i8kmon: I8KMON_ARGS="--daemon --auto" The WLAN works just fine "out-of-the-box". I you want proper 3d acceleration, I recommend installing the linux-restricted-modules-686 package and use the "fglrx" driver, instead of the open-source "ati" driver.

Dell PowerEdge 2450 (5)

This product has been tested on the following operating systems: Debian GNU/Linux and has a average rating of 5

The last rating (5) has been submitted on 2005-10-06 16:31:16 by fuzzyoni running Debian GNU/Linux:
Really, any linux should work fine on these machines, there is nothing expressly interesting or bizzare about them at all. They are wonderful machines, and great little work horses.