On Saturday 02 August 2008 12:36:26 pm Cristian Rodríguez wrote:

Fred A. Miller escribió:

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Electronista | Dell brings Linux to XPS M1330

http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/01/23/dell.xps.m1330.with.linux/

I have this laptop, and works out-of-the-box with openSUSE, with 10.3 you need alsa drivers from multimedia:audio repository, though.

I think that was the point - in the case of Jerry - the thing worked completely. My dell laptop works mostly but I needed to add the addional repositories and I've yet to get the microphone or fingerprint reader working. -- kai www.filesite.org || www.4thedadz.com || www.perfectreign.com remember - a turn signal is a statement, not a request -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred A. Miller" To: "opensuse" Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 3:25 PM Subject: [opensuse] To answer the XPS question concerning preloaded Ubuntun on on a Dell XPS..........

Electronista | Dell brings Linux to XPS M1330

http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/01/23/dell.xps.m1330.with.linux/

Last time I looked on the Dell site (admittedly a while ago) they were limiting the hardware options for the linux version. You couldn't get the ABGN adapter or EVDO, or the fastest cpu, less ram etc possibly no bluetooth, etc etc don't remember about blueray or the remote control, camera, LED backlight version of the screen etc.. Lot's of dumb limitations based presumably on the lack of drivers or software that they could officially support or redistribute. The only way to spec the system fully was to get a Vista version. I think the color choices were even limited. Kind of annoying. I know I would probably never get the EVDO working in linux, but it would certainly work in XP, so still there is no reason to force me to get Vista just because I want the EVDO card. grr... I ended up going with a Vaio TZ (with the inevitable Vista which I ditched) All the goodies in a significantly smaller & lighter package and twice the battery run time. And the wired ethernet is really gigabit, not just a gigabit chipset hooked to a 100mb tranceiver. Downsides are significantly higher price, and significantly underclocked cpu. But 2 cores at 1.06Ghz and 2G@533 ram are ok for xp, freebsd, xubuntu, osr5. And 5 hours of battery life is ***awsome*** Vista was an absolute dog on that hardware. How could they expect to ever sell any units ... oh right, the SSD drive, if you got it, is so fast it probably hides how slow everything else is. I got the 100gb regular drive. And, they probably don't sell that many. I have seen plenty of m1330's and Eee's out in peoples hands but not one other TZ. Even the suckers don't buy them, they get the macbook air. :) (says the guy who would get a Palm Folio this instant if they had ever produced any) -- Brian K. White brian@aljex.com http://www.myspace.com/KEYofR +++++[>+++[>+++++>+++++++<<-]<-]>>+.>.+++++.+++++++.-.[>+<---]>++. filePro BBx Linux SCO FreeBSD #callahans Satriani Filk! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

John Andersen wrote:

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Brian K. White wrote:

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred A. Miller" To: "opensuse" Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 3:25 PM Subject: [opensuse] To answer the XPS question concerning preloaded Ubuntun on on a Dell XPS..........

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Electronista | Dell brings Linux to XPS M1330

http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/01/23/dell.xps.m1330.with.linux/ Last time I looked on the Dell site (admittedly a while ago) they were limiting the hardware options for the linux version. You couldn't get the ABGN adapter or EVDO, or the fastest cpu, less ram etc possibly no bluetooth, etc etc don't remember about blueray or the remote control, camera, LED backlight version of the screen etc..

You get what they are willing to support today.

Why in hell would a vendor sell you a bundled system with things they can't yet support? Why would you grouse about the fact that they didn't want to? You can always buy it with free-DOS on it. If you buy from the small-business division you can even buy it with NO Operating system.

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Lot's of dumb limitations based presumably on the lack of drivers or software that they could officially support or redistribute.

Call it dumb if you will, from a business perspective, it makes perfect sense to refuse to sell you something they don't have. If they sold you vaporware you would slag them for that as well.

They did license and bundle WinDVD to allow them to ship a DVD player solution that did not violate anyone's patents. As far as I can tell, that is the only piece of software on the machine that had a pop-up license notification.

HP claims to have machines that are sold with Linux, but just try to find them. Dell went further and have a good bundle. Emperor Linux goes farther, but they cost way more.

Go here for HP: http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/321152-0-0-0-121.html I'm going to request a list of current hardware that ships WITH Linux. Fred -- Linux is an old Latin word meaning, "I don't have to support your Windows anymore." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org