Dell has been making a lot of interesting moves lately and it's focusing on the Linux side of the business, which can only be a good thing for the open source platform.

Dell is one of the big companies that sell PCs and laptops with Ubuntu preinstalled. This also means that it's one of the ways which made Ubuntu famous around the world. Now, Dell has spotted that the interest of the Linux users has been growing lately and they have made a number of interesting announcement and changes.

The company recently launched a new series of affordable laptops named Inspiron 15 3000 and they have also published an installation tutorial on their website that details how to install Ubuntu on any Dell machine. It's probably worth noting that it's not making the same efforts with the Windows platform and that all of this Linux commotion is rather new.

Dell and Canonical are long-time partners

The sudden interest in Ubuntu from Dell is not exactly surprising as the company has a partnership with Canonical for some time now. They have been selling Ubuntu-powered computers for years, but the Linux platform is becoming more friendly and easier to use, not to mention that it's also getting much more press.

"Canonical and Dell have teamed up to offer an extensive range of desktop, notebook and server configurations, certified and suitable for home use, business use or software development. Dell and Canonical engineers collaborate every day to certify Dell hardware on Ubuntu, to a level that customers can rely on. Dell and Canonical also work together to bring cloud infrastructure solutions to market, based on OpenStack and the Dell & Ubuntu reference architecture," reads the official Dell website.

Now, Dell is also promoting Linux on its twitter account, which falls in line with all of their other initiatives.

Time for a new OS... why not try #Ubuntu? Check out our Ubuntu installation guide: http://t.co/4O7bwpatjL — Dell Cares PRO (@DellCaresPRO) May 28, 2015