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Dell's Subnotebook To Ship With Ubuntu
k33l0r writes "Dell's entry into the sub-notebook market, the Inspiron 910, will ship with Ubuntu preinstalled. This was confirmed this morning when Gizmodo published (leaked) specifications for the Inspiron 910." I hope that's not the final form of the keyboard, though -- lots of wasted space on each side.
I hope it comes with Xubuntu with specs like that. Get the upgrade to 1024 MB if your going to run Gnome.
Now I just have to contain myself until Friday.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
The Atom being used for this is a horrible thing. It's designed as a low-power processor but so much so that under real use it uses considerably more power with less capability than an athlon 64. The slowest up to date intel or amd mobile processor will run considerably faster and with less power draw than the atom if running ubuntu.
Guess as usual, you get lower quality generic parts with dell, not that it's the first time for that.
Atom vs athlon benchmark linked here.
That's right, base your choice of OS on the politeness of every random joe in a forum. Logic rules!
Why not? He based his post on mine and got modded up! Tell me about the logic again?
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Your original post made it sound as if you were pretty anti-Linux in the first place, so any legitimate concern of yours was at least partly masked by a doubt as to whether you really wanted a helpful reply. I think that explains your parent's emotional response at the end.
My saying that I don't plan on going 100% Linux is anti-Linux? Huh? Otherwise I really wish you would quote where I was anti-Linux. My point was more to the migration to various versions of Ubuntu. I thought I had made that pretty clear. And I only brought that up because I have seen working hardware under Ubuntu 6.0 go south after upgrading it to Ubuntu 8.0. I know that wasn't very clear but I never questioned Linux as a whole in the same breath.
But then you seem to use quite a bit of emotion yourself, with this "tizzy" stuff and the "you guys all turn your noses up" comment. Who is "you guys," anyway? The people who respond with fervor when you claim that the software that they use every day is inferior? Seriously, try some tact next time and maybe you won't get flamed.
Quote me where I claim that Linux is inferior. I said that community support was a weak for the problems I had with Linux. I seen plenty of people say the same about Windows community support and not get slapped down for it.
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