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Latitude XT with Linux? Latitude XTn?

240 points posted to Latitude products, Linux by aikiwolfie Feb 16

Are Dell planning to release a version of the Latitude XT with Ubuntu or some other flavor of Linux?

This is both an idea and a question. I would really like to see a version of the Latitude XT with Ubuntu. Looking at the video that has been posted on D2D and is now currently doing the rounds on the Linux Community site, it would seem Dell are teasing us a bit.

So how about it Dell? Are you big enough to bring the Latitude XT to Ubuntu?

winoffice
Feb 16		 It looks as though the suggestion was already posted here. After all, that idea asked for Ubuntu on the Latitide XT, did it?
aikiwolfie
Feb 17		 Does it? Well I also wanted to ask the question as well since the promotional video appeared in the Linux community area.
winoffice
Feb 17		 It asked for Ubuntu 7.10 in the "Postscript (PS)" section of the idea.
aikiwolfie
Feb 17		 Really? There is no Ubuntu 7.1. There is a Ubuntu 7.10 however. The difference might not be readily apparent until you appreciate how the version number convention works for Ubuntu. You see 7.1 would mean there was a major release in January 2007. 7.10 however means there was a major release in October 2007.
winoffice
Feb 17		 That was a typographic error, I fixed that.

But why is 7.1 different from 7.10? I know mathematics well enough to know that 7.10 should be equal to 7.1, not different.
aikiwolfie
Feb 17		 7.1 is different from 7.10 because the numbering refers to the year and month that particular version was released. the 7 = 2007 the 10 = October, the 10th month of the year.

But thinking about it 7.1 would just be totally wrong. The next version is 8.04. So we need to preserve the leading and trailing zeros after the decimal point. It's not mathematics winoffice. It's a version control numbering convention.

Take my current version of Firefox. It's version number is 2.0.0.12. I'm not a maths genius but if we were talking maths then there should only be one decimal point right? It's not maths.
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