On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Harvey Rothenberg <[email protected]>wrote:
> Developers meet Project Sputnik, Dell’s six-month exploratory pilot to > create an Ubuntu Linux®-based developer laptop. Initial ideas include: > > - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS loaded on a Dell™ XPS 13 Ultrabook™ > - Distro augmented by the necessary hardware drivers and a basic set > of tools that support building, testing, and producing web and mobile apps > > Annoyingly, the augmentations haven't yet been submitted upstream to the main kernel yet (as far as I can tell), so I have to grab their git tree and create patches to make the driver for the Cypress touchpad work on other distros, such as Fedora. I doubt Fedora, or other open source distros will ever support this hardware unless they submit upstream. Kind of sad, because it is quite a nice laptop, I use it at work, and Ubuntu is useless for me here. -- Jonathan Billings <[email protected]> College of Engineering - CAEN - Unix and Linux Support
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