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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