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Pledge to make 1420n work fully with standard Ubuntu 7.10

500 points posted to Inspiron products, Linux, Operating Systems by dara 09/08/07

I know there isn't much more time before the 7.10 release of Ubuntu (pre release named Gutsy Gibbon). I've been following a bit in ubuntuforums.org and some are optimistic about a fresh install of 7.10 enabling all the hardware on a 1420n. But I'd be much more likely to buy a 1420n now (I'm close) if Dell would promise to make every effort to get everything on this laptop as currently offered (heck, throw in bluetooth again too) working fully with the October release (and if not fully, working to get the updates onto the repositories as soon as possible.

Perhaps this plan has already been stated - if so, not prominently enough for me to have heard of it.

davmcn
09/08/07		 Why in the world would you want linux?
jorge
09/09/07		 For the same reason you would want any other OS.
howlingmadhowie
09/09/07		 davmcn: because i don't want to regard the computer as a black box?
davmcn
09/09/07		 Good One Jorge.lol.
tekhawk
09/10/07		 think that is a reasonable goal for them
jdelidc
09/10/07		 yea, they got ready for the new windows. why not also for the new ubuntu?
dara
09/11/07		 I fully realize that getting ready for Vista is not the same as getting ready for Ubuntu 7.10. For one, the Vista market is a heck of a lot bigger. But the little I've heard of Vista isn't good (we'll get stuck with it at work at some point though). So the pledge I'm asking for hopefully isn't that bad. Reading the main review on the 1420n that everybody links to on Starry Hope says that the major trouble is 3-d video and hibernate (both of which are pretty nice to have given the hardware is capable of it).

Hope to hear some longer responses to this post - I searched and didn't see anything like it when I started it. I figured it would be more popular actually.
tekhawk
09/11/07		 id like to see then put a linux friendly webcam on something for a laptop

but ive been running the dev version of 7.10 aka gutsy and its really impressive for ease of use and would be fine in the hand of anyone willing to buy a linux laptop to start learning on
perseid
09/19/07		 The vostro 1500 isn't completely working yet, too. Ubuntu 7.10 lacks sound support by default.
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