So here's the Notebook that Dell will be puting Ubuntu on

greggh · Post by **greggh** » Sat May 19, 2007 11:28 am

It's the Inspiron E1505 according to http://jeremy.linuxquestions.org/2007/0 ... or-ubuntu/

http://www.dell.com/content/products/fe ... l=en&s=dhs

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Sat May 19, 2007 12:02 pm

Looks good if you want a dell. I'm pretty damn picky about my lappys, so I doubt I'll be getting off my current plan of buying clearance stinkpads every few years any time soon.

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Sat May 19, 2007 2:45 pm

Same here. I applaud Dell for doing this, but I love my ThinkPad, and I can't imagine buying anything else.

allix · Post by **allix** » Sat May 19, 2007 3:32 pm

i have a dell laptop, its a few years old, but its fine for what i want to do, everything works perfectly.
I always think thinkpads are the expensive option (brand new ) and apart from Active Protection System and Biometric fingerprint reader i see nothing that no other vendors cannot offer.

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Sat May 19, 2007 7:18 pm

allix wrote:i have a dell laptop, its a few years old, but its fine for what i want to do, everything works perfectly.
I always think thinkpads are the expensive option (brand new ) and apart from Active Protection System and Biometric fingerprint reader i see nothing that no other vendors cannot offer.

I just like the build quality, and the level of compatibility with free Unix operating systems. If you shop around, you can find good deals online. Not to mention ThinkPads look bad-ass.

Vogateer · Post by **Vogateer** » Sat May 19, 2007 9:23 pm

Looks like a decent machine, so I might check out the least expensive one. All the laptops in the series use the ATI video card, though. I assumed they would go with the Intel GMA. I truly want open drivers on all the hardware, since I'm so damned sick of having to mess around with the proprietary drivers. I swear they break at least half the time when I upgrade the kernel. Even if they didn't break, they're still the wrong way to do things; how on earth can you hope to support a linux machine with a kernel that can't be troubleshooted because of a binary blob?

allix · Post by **allix** » Sun May 20, 2007 2:49 am

Vogateer wrote:how on earth can you hope to support a linux machine with a kernel that can't be troubleshooted because of a binary blob?

Troels would tell you that you cannot

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Sun May 20, 2007 5:41 am

allix wrote:
Vogateer wrote:how on earth can you hope to support a linux machine with a kernel that can't be troubleshooted because of a binary blob?
Troels would tell you that you cannot

So true.