My hardware Dell Inspiron 1525 Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 processor 250GB 5400RPM SATA hard disk 4GB RAM Intel graphic card Live CD boot I put my cd in and boot the live environment (I found it a little bit slow but that’s not a problem since it’s a live…), everything is perfectly configured and [...]
A few days ago a bought a new laptop: a DELL Inspiron 1525 (T8100 processor, 4GB RAM, 320GB hard disk). I chose it because all hardware (except the wireless card) is Intel based (audio/video) and I like Intel’s policy about open source drivers. Everything is working smoothly, I had to configure nothing! Compiz works wonderfully [...]
I was looking at the Dell Ubuntu PC page and I was counting in my mind… there was something strange about prices, later I found this really good comparison. Talking about the inspiron model, Ubuntu costs 80$ less than Vista Basic, but Ubuntu PC has Intel graphic while Vista PC has ATI X1400, there’s a [...]
Taken from this article on businessweek: Dell Inc. has agreed to work with Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. under an alliance the rival software makers formed last year to make it easier for the Windows operating system and the increasingly popular Linux system to work together Dell surely have its own reasons to choose Ubuntu [...]
Dell (ubuntu-pc) and Intel (ubuntu mobile) have just signed some sort of partnership with Canonical/Ubuntu, but I’m asking myself why now and why Ubuntu? I think the answer is composed by two parts: Ubuntu has a solid company behind (and also a big community, but NOT ONLY a community) Ubuntu was created in the name [...]
If you read any news website in these days you already know that Dell officially announced that will (in the next few weeks) start selling Ubuntu (7.04 feisty fawn) based PCs. That’s wonderful, you know what I think about that Now? What will other distributors do? It seems that Toshiba is already thinking to linux-PCs, [...]