DELL INSTALLS RED HAT LINUX 7.2 ON PRECISION WORKSTATIONS.

Dell (Nasdaq:DELL) has installed Red Hat Linux 7.2 on its entire line of Dell Precision workstations and Dell PowerEdge servers, including the PowerEdge 1500SC server, which was introduced for small business customers.

Dell Precision workstations running Red Hat Linux are an ideal production and development platform offering the most popular desktop user interfaces, and development compilers and interpreters. Red Hat Linux on Dell PowerEdge servers offers a cost effective networking infrastructure and development option for many of today's most common business applications. Dell also has worked closely with Red Hat to provide support in Red Hat Linux 7.2 for Broadcom's Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) accelerator card, available as a low-cost security option on most PowerEdge servers.

For customers who develop their own Linux image using Red Hat Linux 7.2 or another Linux distribution, Dell offers Custom Factory Integration to install the software on Dell OptiPlex desktop and Dell Latitude notebook computers.

Red Hat Linux 7.2 is immediately available on Dell PowerEdge servers and will be available on Dell Precision workstations later this year.

More information on Linux on Dell systems can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.dell.com/linux.

More information on Red Hat Linux can be found at http://www.redhat.com.

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Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq:DELL) is a computer systems company and is a premier provider of products and services required for customers to build their information-technology and Internet infrastructures. The company's revenue for the past four quarters totaled $31.8 billion. Dell ranks No. 48 on the Fortune 500, No. 122 on the Fortune Global 500 and No. 7 on the Fortune Global "most admired" lists of companies. Dell, through its direct business model, designs, manufactures and customizes products and services to customer requirements, and offers an extensive selection of software and peripherals.

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