Re: Ubuntu on Dell laptops here in Aus?
On 21/01/2008, David Whyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was long since resolved. Asus has since provided the source code, within a small number of days of that report. They 'accidentally' forgot to make it available. :) Good news. Thanks for clearing that up. Stuart -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Ubuntu on Dell laptops here in Aus?
I had a play with an Eee PC at Good guys on the weekend and thought it was great. I was however a bit dissapointed to then read this article on slashdot which explains that the Eee PC seems to be in violation of the GPL. I hope it gets resolved. It looks like a great bit of gear. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/25/1331259 -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Ubuntu on Dell laptops here in Aus?
Hi dov, I just wanted to say thank for all this detailed info. Also, the ASUS Eee PC sounds like a fun practical PC to have (I've recommend it to a friend who wants to use a laptop for standard tasks..) and I'll probably still get a Dell as I'd like to still be able to play around with Ubuntu. I imagine a Dell PC will give me the ability to more readily explore and experiment than the ASUS EEE? I'll probably wait a few more months anyway to see whether Dell AU releases a Dell with an Ubuntu option. And also see how the ASUS eee is handling.. sounds like it's pretty successful to date! regards, Andrew On 18 Jan, 16:18, Dov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if the market out this part of the world is considered big enough. Hey, Dells ship to here from Malaysia! Dell does offer great bang for your buck though and it has a good Dell-Linux section on the web. I got my Inspiron 1501 a while ago and put Ubuntu on it. Learned enough in the process to give the following tips: - For general Laptop selection, try and get one with nVidia instead of ATI (although the ATI drivers for Linux are improving a lot) - Try and get a model that is supported for Linux in the US. - You can download the Dell version of Ubuntu Gutsy off their website with all their hacks and drivers in it. Unfortunately it's a DVD sized download. No idea why. - When you reformat the hard drive, leave the two small Dell partitions intact (one at the start of the drive and another at the end). If you have issues with your laptop, they expect that you will be able to run their own diagnostics on it to help them with problem shooting. The other partition is a restore partition that restores the whole hard drive to it's original specs when it left the factory. - If you adapt your system on the Dell website (I recommend that you do!), choose XP instead of Vista. The price of the OS's looks the same, but they increase the price of the OTHER parts of the laptop if you select Vista. Spread the price elsewhere. I really do recommend the Dells though. They're working hard to be Linux friendly overall and they can't be beaten on price. While you're in NZ, Dick Smith used to sell computers without an OS and hand you a Linux CD on the way out. Not sure if they still do though... dov On Jan 11, 10:08 am, Andrew G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there. I'm probably going to get a laptop this year... and I found this (http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu? c=uscs=19l=ens=dhsdgc=IRcid=11973lid=471885) and am pretty stoked. After perusing the Dell Aussie site though, this doesn't seem to be an option for us.. is that right? thanks, Andrew -- ubuntu-au mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au -- ubuntu-au mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Ubuntu on Dell laptops here in Aus?
David Whyte wrote: On Jan 20, 2008 9:53 PM, Andrew G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi dov, I just wanted to say thank for all this detailed info. Also, the ASUS Eee PC sounds like a fun practical PC to have (I've recommend it to a friend who wants to use a laptop for standard tasks..) and I'll probably still get a Dell as I'd like to still be able to play around with Ubuntu. I don't have an EeePC (yet) but I really like its form. Anyways, I saw that you could run full blown Ubuntu on there, even with the 3D effects. I will probably wait for a slightly better screen. I really couldn't work on something with such low resolution, especially if I chose to do some programming in an IDE. Anyways, a video of the EeePC running compiz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru780Jfc1bQ Cheers, Whytey Hmm this is a very interesting discussion. I have an old steam driven Toshiba atm and everything on it works but the battery life is woeful at best. I somehow dont think th eeePc will suit my usage. If i was willing to spend say $1500-2500 on a laptop. what couple people recommend as powerful yet Ubuntu friendly? I hate to say it but most likely i will dual boot XP and Kubuntu 7.04 (this is the last version of Linux kernel i can get my iBurst USB modem to work with). Xp will just be for games but i play a lot of games at work and Wine doesn't love me. Leslie P.S Battery life would be a big bonus to me as my current model struggles at 2 hours of web browsing. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Ubuntu on Dell laptops here in Aus?
You can't compare clock speeds across different types or revisions/generations of CPUs. Today's CPUs are much more efficient clock-for-clock than their predecessors. See here for an explanation: http://yama.blogsome.com/2007/11/12/megahertz-marketing/ On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Chris Dinneen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes It was a Pentium 4. But the Clock speed on the EeePC is only ~900MHz. martin fricke wrote: Do you mean a Pentium 4 2.4GHz? They were released to the market at least 5 years ago (up to 6 years) so are old technology. Still seems like good performance from a mini notebook though. --- On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:30:10 +1000, Chris Dinneen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I work in a Physics Department at a University and I helped one of the Grad students modify his Eee PC so we could install mathematica (the default partition scheme is less than helpful). As a comparison of speed, our 2.4 Ghz Intel Pentium Desktop took 3 times longer to calculate a series of 5 complicated integrals as the EeePC. So the thing certainly doesn't lack speed. -- Your toaster doesn't crash. Your television doesn't crash. Why should your computer? http://www.linux.org.au/linux signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Ubuntu on Dell laptops here in Aus?
Thanks for that information, Matt. Everything works perfectly on this machine (Epc) including the webcam - in fact the camera capture programme used is is far superior to camorama - at least the Dapper edition of it. My Maxtor Mini has a capacity of 60 GB and works fine with the Epc but the power requirement of the Maxtor means connecting the Epc to the mains which is not always convenient. I will keep the SDHC card in mind - thanks for the tip. Andre On 20/01/2008, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 08:28:01AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...and it also responds to voice commands. It really is an amazing machine. The Xandros installation works very, very well. I also got one and agree! The internal flash is 4 of which only 1.3g is left over from the xandros system and a recovery partition. I bought a 4gb SDHC card for the slot; that gives me plenty of disk space. The card was a lexar from Dick Smith which comes with a usb card reader - useful if you want to attach it to another machine. Now I just have to get a C compiler and other bits and pieces on to it. I won't go ubuntu (yet). It's quite good as it is. There are a few revisions of these things out already; 7a, 7b, 7c. I don't know what the difference is but apparently some or all of the earlier ones webcam didn't / wasn't enabled to work out of the box. My rev 7c works fine. Matt -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Ubuntu on Dell laptops here in Aus?
Am Donnerstag, den 17.01.2008, 22:10 -0800 schrieb Dov: G'day Andrew, I just checked out the Good Guys webs, and found not only an Acer, but a tiny little Asus laptop with the OS marked as Linux. Very nice to see... Dov That's the ASUS Eee PC, which was briefly discussed on this list not long ago. It comes pre-installed with a customised version of Xandros which, like Ubuntu, is based on Debian. Without wanting to sound like an ad, this thing is a great piece of kit. It's got both wifi and ethernet networking, Intel graphics with dual monitor support, HD audio with built-in speakers and input/output jacks, 3 USB 2.0 ports, webcam, plus an SD/SDHC card slot. It runs on a 4 GB internal flash drive, though some models come with a 2 GB or an 8 GB one (which I don't think are available in Australia). The max. battery life is only 3.5 hours, but I think a new model battery with more cells in it is coming out soon. I snagged myself one of these just before Xmas and can highly recommend it. It's going to come in very handy when I go back to being a student in a few weeks. A community for this device has started up at www.eeeuser.com , which is packed with howtos and what not, including installing a custom eee PC version of Xubuntu, among many other OSes, although the default Xandros is pretty good for what this thing is designed to be - an easy to use and highly portable lightweight computing device. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
