![]() I’m especially curious about the hardware support, since it was Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) that had all the intel video driver issues resulting nearly everyone on a netbook who installed it to upgrade to bleeding edge xorg to get acceptable performance or roll back to previous versions of Ubuntu. If I hadn’t already pulled the trigger on the ASUS eeepc 901 when I did I might have gotten one of the mini Inspirons when they came out. It will be interesting to see what these devices are once someone buys one and reports back on it. Now that Canonical no longer has a LPIA branch, I’m not sure that applies. It wasn’t as easy to upgrade because doing so would lose all the optimizations, I believe those devices were disabled due to architecture differences. Recall that the version of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS shipped with Dell’s earlier attempt at this had a specially compiled version called LPIA for the Intel Atom processors. ![]() ![]() They might have done with the earlier versions they worked with Canonical to produce. Not doing so would be weird in my opinion. I assume Canonical does that on the OEM version for Dell. Well that’s the thing, how often does a corporation do the obvious thing? Especially when it comes to computers? It just strikes me as obvious that Dell OEM Ubuntu don’t have the version upgrades enabled. My DELL is pretty good in that respect, but I specifically opted out of the worst offenders. The solution is of course buying only documented hardware. can’t rely on hw vendors because they are never trustworthy. Any version can be the last version, and Dell and co. Maybe some people here are too young to remember, but most should remember when they tried updating their machines to W2000 or XP only to find out some OEM hardware driver was MIA or only for Windows 95. You are free to update to a version without many of the older flaws – at your own risk. All concerns for security and obsolete software, are justified but the current state of patents, stupid licenses and paranoid hardware makers is not really Dell’s fault. The version they are shipping is guaranteed to work. If they updated to Karmic, they would need to pay real money again. I doubt they got a license for “all future versions”. They have also licensed a proprietary DVD player(the only legal way to watch DVDs in Linux) and other minor things. ![]() Or that Ubuntu won’t change the sound subsystem when the new one doesn’t work or release a network manager that breaks the network, AGAIN. If anything it is less likely as many Ubuntu developers and testers will be using the machine and if nothing else sending the bug reports down to people working upstream.ĭell is supporting the machines as they ship them, they cannot guarantee that nVidia or whatever other crap their customers choose to put into their configuration, will release a working driver for Ubuntu 11.10. I don’t think it is more likely to break on update than any other hardware configuration. ![]()
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