On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 09:15, Randall Ross (rrnwexec) <[email protected]> wrote: > @Martin Wildman, > Kindly advise if your hardware is on the Ubuntu-certified list for both > Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10. > The list can be found here: http://webapps.ubuntu.com/certification/
I have 2x Dell Latitude E-5500. When I bought them I was not aware of the certification list, but however I did research and told my Dell contact person, that I want a Linux compatible machine. I have paid attention to have a supported video card built in and so on. I mean, what do you expect else from people? The list of supported hardware is a pretty small amount in relation to what is on the market. I already focus on Dell and models people tell me that they are working. And guess, it worked without problems on 9.04 (although I remember there were two issues that have been solved with some updates - if I remember right) and I had no real issue with 9.10. With 10.04 I have two issues with workarounds. 10.10 is the worst now. In fact, currently I strictly refer to the list of certified models, but it is not always possible to follow that 100%. People see special offers in shops or at vendor websites or build their PC on their own. In general I was instructed always to check whether the built-in parts are Linux-compatible or not. BTW: Don't know how long it takes after a model is released until certification has gone through - could there be a serious delay? On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 09:27, Tom <[email protected]> wrote: > The LTS releases are often quite a lot better than the 6 monthlies but the 6 > monthlies are good fun and do often push into interesting areas. On my machine I had everything from 9.04 to 10.10 - can't say, that LTS necessarily was the best from my experience. I would say 9.10 was for me having the least issues. That said, I do use more applications now on 10.04 than I did no 9.10 (number of applications in daily use is increasing I would say). > So, i tend to have an LTS as my main stable but i use a spare partition for > exploring and playing around. Since 9.10 I do contribute with testing from the early betas helping to push quality - don't leave out a version, but decided not to update every 6 months on my production machine. > If something doesn't work in one but does in the > other then it is usually fixable if you have the time & patience to ask in > forums or read documentation or find your own way. Of course, I use the forums and Launchpad for bug reporting. I do my best to help. If you sum up the hours I helped so far in money, I could have bought Windows and MS Office with no problem... -- Martin Wildam http://www.google.com/profiles/mwildam -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
