Re: [ilugd] Buying a New Dell Laptop Without Windows

[H.S.Rai]

See:

http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/09/7-providers-of-pre-installed-linux.html

We really need companies / shops like:

http://www.system76.com/ selling PC, Laptops (rate from $385 to $1389)
and server, all with Ubuntu and company sell computers ONLY with
Ubuntu.

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Re: [ilugd] Buying a New Dell Laptop Without Windows

[Abhinav Sahai]

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 11:04 PM, subodh  wrote:

> Can I buy a Dell laptop without the Windows Operating System so that i can
> cut cost on that?
> Also it is unfare to forcefully sell windows to customer who are unware of
> the choices. Some step similar to  European Union in case of web browser
> choice(
> http://mynetx.net/#!/2042/eu-settles-web-browser-arguement-with-microsoft) 
> should be taken.
>
>
Yep, I bought a Dell Inspiron from a retailer in Bangalore last year,
without OS. Everything works flawlessly on Ubuntu. Not underpowered too.

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Re: [ilugd] Buying a New Dell Laptop Without Windows

[Anupam Jain]

Oh yeah I had forgotten about the headphone problem! Well I would rate the 
experience as close but not quite flawless then.
Also I just saw a Dell Vostro 1014 on sale with Ubuntu on it at a shoppers stop 
in Delhi near Rajouri Gardens. Didn't have much time to check the details but 
it's a great option.

-- Anupam

Please excuse the top posting and the brevity.
Sent from my BlackBerry

-Original Message-
From: Subhranath Chunder 
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:08:57 
To: 
Cc: Harish Pillay; 
; 
H.S.Rai; ilugd
Subject: Re: [ilugd] Buying a New Dell Laptop Without Windows

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Anupam Jain  wrote:

> I have a dell Vostro 1014 that works flawlessly with ubuntu 10.04 LTS. It
> originally came with windows though.
>

Just plug in a headphone/earphone/speaker to the front headphone jack, and
you'll see.
Requires backported ALSA module to fix this issue.



> -- Anupam
>
> Please excuse the top posting and the brevity. Sent from my phone.
> Sent from my BlackBerry
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Harish Pillay 
> Sender: ilugd-bounces+ajnsit=gmail@lists.linux-delhi.org
> Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:44:58
> To: H.S.Rai
> Cc: ilugd
> Subject: Re: [ilugd] Buying a New Dell Laptop Without Windows
>
> >> One of my friend bought a Dell laptop without windows few days back. So,
> I
> >> am sure that you can get a DELL laptop without pre-installed windows.
>
> I've got a Dell Vostro V-13 that is part of their N-series systems.  It
> came
> with Ubuntu pre-installed, which I subsequently placed Fedora over.  But
> more importantly, all of the components - built-in webcamera, wifi,
> ethernet,
> bluetooth etc all worked out of the box.
>
> I will highly recommend the Dell Vostro to anyone.
> --
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Re: [ilugd] Delhi-NCR FOSS geek meetup - Pictures and Feedback Needed..

[Piyush Kumar]

Nice event and good discussion's @Delhi/NCR FOSS Meetup ...really
loved the passion and open-mindedness of students + other
Intellectual Peoplespecially Gaurav Paliwal !

Way to go 


and Narendra - bro it will be 2011 
>
> 9 and 16 Jan 2010.
>
>

s/2010/2011/

Thanks!

~/Piyush

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Re: [ilugd] Delhi-NCR FOSS geek meetup - Pictures and Feedback Needed..

[Narendra Sisodiya]

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Narendra Sisodiya <
naren...@narendrasisodiya.com> wrote:

> Total 23 people from Delhi, Gurgoan, Noida have attended todays FOSS geek
> meeetup.
> Here are the pics - *
> http://lug-iitd.posterous.com/pics-of-delhi-foss-geek-meetup-26-dec-2010*
> Please give your feedback , here or in your blogs/tweets and notify here.
> Totally It was a great event.. We started with 1.30 sharp and ended around
> 7pm in night. After that 10 people (better says geek) has social gathering
> and eat-out.
> It took us 1 hour 30 minute to complete our introduction. Because we were
> discussing a lot. first presentation was finished at 4 pm. Arulalant gave a
> good presentation on python. Later Gaurav explain reason on "why debian is
> better then ubuntu", It was a flame war kind of session and everybody
> enjoyed..  everybody was sharing their experience. Everybody was telling
> about FOSS story and how they started LUG/FUG/FSUG in their college.
> Ankur Anand  & Anuvrat Parashar shared their college project and we all
> discussed and suggested many things. Totally rank this event as 10/10.
> We all will try to manage this kind of monthly meetup... There were many
> face from Delhi FOSS community was missing and we missed them too. hope to
> see a bigger response for next meetup.
> We can have NEXT Meetup at 9 DEC or 16 Dec {both are Sunday}
>

9 and 16 Jan 2010.


> Based on suggestion, we can improve. Feel free to drop a email or just
> write a blog so that other can also Participate.
>
>
>
> --
> ┌─┐
> │Narendra Sisodiya
> │http://narendrasisodiya.com
> └─┘
>



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[ilugd] Delhi-NCR FOSS geek meetup - Pictures and Feedback Needed..

[Narendra Sisodiya]

Total 23 people from Delhi, Gurgoan, Noida have attended todays FOSS geek
meeetup.
Here are the pics - *
http://lug-iitd.posterous.com/pics-of-delhi-foss-geek-meetup-26-dec-2010*
Please give your feedback , here or in your blogs/tweets and notify here.
Totally It was a great event.. We started with 1.30 sharp and ended around
7pm in night. After that 10 people (better says geek) has social gathering
and eat-out.
It took us 1 hour 30 minute to complete our introduction. Because we were
discussing a lot. first presentation was finished at 4 pm. Arulalant gave a
good presentation on python. Later Gaurav explain reason on "why debian is
better then ubuntu", It was a flame war kind of session and everybody
enjoyed..  everybody was sharing their experience. Everybody was telling
about FOSS story and how they started LUG/FUG/FSUG in their college.
Ankur Anand  & Anuvrat Parashar shared their college project and we all
discussed and suggested many things. Totally rank this event as 10/10.
We all will try to manage this kind of monthly meetup... There were many
face from Delhi FOSS community was missing and we missed them too. hope to
see a bigger response for next meetup.
We can have NEXT Meetup at 9 DEC or 16 Dec {both are Sunday}
Based on suggestion, we can improve. Feel free to drop a email or just write
a blog so that other can also Participate.



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Re: [ilugd] Buying a New Dell Laptop Without Windows

[Subhranath Chunder]

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Anupam Jain  wrote:

> I have a dell Vostro 1014 that works flawlessly with ubuntu 10.04 LTS. It
> originally came with windows though.
>

Just plug in a headphone/earphone/speaker to the front headphone jack, and
you'll see.
Requires backported ALSA module to fix this issue.



> -- Anupam
>
> Please excuse the top posting and the brevity. Sent from my phone.
> Sent from my BlackBerry
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Harish Pillay 
> Sender: ilugd-bounces+ajnsit=gmail@lists.linux-delhi.org
> Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:44:58
> To: H.S.Rai
> Cc: ilugd
> Subject: Re: [ilugd] Buying a New Dell Laptop Without Windows
>
> >> One of my friend bought a Dell laptop without windows few days back. So,
> I
> >> am sure that you can get a DELL laptop without pre-installed windows.
>
> I've got a Dell Vostro V-13 that is part of their N-series systems.  It
> came
> with Ubuntu pre-installed, which I subsequently placed Fedora over.  But
> more importantly, all of the components - built-in webcamera, wifi,
> ethernet,
> bluetooth etc all worked out of the box.
>
> I will highly recommend the Dell Vostro to anyone.
> --
> Harish Pillay h.pil...@ieee.org gpg id: 746809E3
>
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Re: [ilugd] Buying a New Dell Laptop Without Windows

[Anupam Jain]

I have a dell Vostro 1014 that works flawlessly with ubuntu 10.04 LTS. It 
originally came with windows though.

-- Anupam

Please excuse the top posting and the brevity. Sent from my phone.
Sent from my BlackBerry

-Original Message-
From: Harish Pillay 
Sender: ilugd-bounces+ajnsit=gmail@lists.linux-delhi.org
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 18:44:58 
To: H.S.Rai
Cc: ilugd
Subject: Re: [ilugd] Buying a New Dell Laptop Without Windows

>> One of my friend bought a Dell laptop without windows few days back. So, I
>> am sure that you can get a DELL laptop without pre-installed windows.

I've got a Dell Vostro V-13 that is part of their N-series systems.  It came
with Ubuntu pre-installed, which I subsequently placed Fedora over.  But
more importantly, all of the components - built-in webcamera, wifi, ethernet,
bluetooth etc all worked out of the box.

I will highly recommend the Dell Vostro to anyone.
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Re: [ilugd] Buying a New Dell Laptop Without Windows

[Harish Pillay]

>> One of my friend bought a Dell laptop without windows few days back. So, I
>> am sure that you can get a DELL laptop without pre-installed windows.

I've got a Dell Vostro V-13 that is part of their N-series systems.  It came
with Ubuntu pre-installed, which I subsequently placed Fedora over.  But
more importantly, all of the components - built-in webcamera, wifi, ethernet,
bluetooth etc all worked out of the box.

I will highly recommend the Dell Vostro to anyone.
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Re: [ilugd] Buying a New Dell Laptop Without Windows

[H.S.Rai]

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 12:47 PM, shrey sinha  wrote:
>
> One of my friend bought a Dell laptop without windows few days back. So, I
> am sure that you can get a DELL laptop without pre-installed windows.

Buying PC / Laptop without MS product will not guarantee that you will
be able to exploit its full hardware capability on Linux. I purchased
laptop with FreeDOS, failed to get some features (like audio recording
/ webcam ) worked at all.

Even buying preinstalled Linux may also be not a solution. Example is
"Intel Classroom tablet". Preinstalled Ubuntu, works excellent, but if
you want to its upgrade, other flavour, you will find stylus (touch
screen / wifi / bluetooth) not working and company advise you not to
upgrade. Do it at your risk + lose of warranty.

In some cases, pre-installed M$ product, can work very well as dual
boot on any flavour of Linux. So YMMV.

Unless hardware company support FOSS, give you freedom, it is
struggle. Better combine hand to fight this struggle rather than
developing one's skill in resolving issues only. Legal / Political /
Social fronts are equally important.

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Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 10.04 got crashed

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Rakesh Kumar said on Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 12:38:45PM +0530,:

 > We already tried to solve it through grub command line but didn't
 > work..

What did you do? Explaining that may help. Is this an ext4 partition?
Is the issue related to inability of certain versions of grub to load
ext4 partitions? 

If so, installing the relevant module from grub command line may help.

I faintly recall breaking this system when I encountered that problem,
and none of the rescue CDs I had could support ext4. Was forced to do
a reinstall, first one in a loong time!!

Have you checked that? 

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Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 10.04 got crashed

[Aman Thakur]

Hello Rakesh,

I didn't asked that whether there is separate /home partition or not on the
HDD. Actually i suggested you to use one...:P And can you provide us your
installation/up-gradation logs of the broken machine? If possible. And also
tell us the hardware you are using. And do consider logs carefully, they can
give you a good idea about your problem like failure of up-gradation of
a particular package.

Regards
Aman Thakur
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