To All,
A six month experiment Dell is undertaking to design a notebook
running open source software aimed at developers (as reported on the net as of
May 11, 2012).
While there’s no
Sputnik laptop available for purchase yet, Dell has started by creating a
custom build of Ubuntu 12.04 Linux designed to run on the company’s XPS 13
ultrabook.
You can download the disk image and try it out today. It includes
most of the drivers necessary to let Ubuntu work on the XPS 13. The folks at
Netbook News (dot) com it took the disk image for a spin,
and aside from lack of support for multitouch gestures on the touchpad,
it looks like everything works great.
Everything
seems very fast and responsive, and YouTube video playback is smooth.
The Dell XPS 13 has a 13.3 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, Sandy Bridge
processor, and a speedy solid state disk for storage, which is part of
the reason the laptop can resume from sleep so quickly.
As reported from Barton's Blog :
http://bartongeorge.net/2012/05/07/introducing-project-sputnik-developer-laptop/
Downloadable Install Image :
http://hwe.ubuntu.com/uds-q/dellxps/
=-=-=-=-=Here is hoping that Dell gets back into offering Linux as a option for
purchase.
Regards, Harvey Rothenberg
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson
afterwards." -- Unknown
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