On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 09:15, Randall Ross (rrnwexec) <[email protected]> wrote: > @Martin Wildman, > Kindly advise if your hardware is on the Ubuntu-certified list for both > Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10. > The list can be found here: http://webapps.ubuntu.com/certification/
I have 2x Dell Latitude E-5500. When I bought them I was not aware of the certification list, but however I did research and told my Dell contact person, that I want a Linux compatible machine. I have paid attention to have a supported video card built in and so on. I mean, what do you expect else from people? The list of supported hardware is a pretty small amount in relation to what is on the market. I already focus on Dell and models people tell me that they are working. And guess, it worked without problems on 9.04 (although I remember there were two issues that have been solved with some updates - if I remember right) and I had no real issue with 9.10. With 10.04 I have two issues with workarounds. 10.10 is the worst now. In fact, currently I strictly refer to the list of certified models, but it is not always possible to follow that 100%. People see special offers in shops or at vendor websites or build their PC on their own. In general I was instructed always to check whether the built-in parts are Linux-compatible or not. BTW: Don't know how long it takes after a model is released until certification has gone through - could there be a serious delay? On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 09:27, Tom <[email protected]> wrote: > The LTS releases are often quite a lot better than the 6 monthlies but the 6 > monthlies are good fun and do often push into interesting areas. On my machine I had everything from 9.04 to 10.10 - can't say, that LTS necessarily was the best from my experience. I would say 9.10 was for me having the least issues. That said, I do use more applications now on 10.04 than I did no 9.10 (number of applications in daily use is increasing I would say). > So, i tend to have an LTS as my main stable but i use a spare partition for > exploring and playing around. Since 9.10 I do contribute with testing from the early betas helping to push quality - don't leave out a version, but decided not to update every 6 months on my production machine. > If something doesn't work in one but does in the > other then it is usually fixable if you have the time & patience to ask in > forums or read documentation or find your own way. Of course, I use the forums and Launchpad for bug reporting. I do my best to help. If you sum up the hours I helped so far in money, I could have bought Windows and MS Office with no problem... -- Martin Wildam http://www.google.com/profiles/mwildam -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu 4 dz, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share Status in Club Distro: Confirmed Status in Computer Science Ubuntu: Invalid Status in EasyPeasy Overview: Invalid Status in GNOME Screensaver: Won't Fix Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians: Invalid Status in JAK LINUX: Invalid Status in The Linux OS Project: In Progress Status in The Metacity Window Manager: In Progress Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: In Progress Status in Tabuntu: Invalid Status in A simple player to online TV streaming: Invalid Status in Tv-Player: New Status in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in “ubuntu-express” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in The Jaunty Jackalope: Invalid Status in “ubuntu-express” source package in Jaunty: Invalid Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Invalid Status in “linux” package in Debian: In Progress Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS: Confirmed Status in openSUSE: In Progress Status in Tilix Linux: New Bug description: Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug, which Ubuntu is designed to fix. Non-free software is holding back innovation in the IT industry, restricting access to IT to a small part of the world's population and limiting the ability of software developers to reach their full potential, globally. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry. Steps to repeat: 1. Visit a local PC store. What happens: 2. Observe that a majority of PCs for sale have non-free software pre-installed. 3. Observe very few PCs with Ubuntu and free software pre-installed. What should happen: 1. A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software like Ubuntu. 2. Ubuntu should be marketed in a way such that its amazing features and benefits would be apparent and known by all. 3. The system shall become more and more user friendly as time passes. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
