Anyone tried Dell Mini

[Jonathan Jesse]

My mni dell is on order with ubuntu 8.04 on it.  In talking with jorge on #ubuntu-us-mi its something dell and canonical have been working on for awhile.

suprm1 (Mario) works on the Dell Ubuntu project for Dell. suprm1 also does Mythbuntu as well

Jonathan

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn R Williams <gloonie at earthlink.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 12:18 PM
To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Anyone tried Dell Mini

The Dell is available only for "pre-order" and is expected out in October. I 
think you are right - it's the LTS issue that keeps from Kubuntu. Also, the 
description stated the OS was "Mini OS Powered by Ubuntu 8.04". What does THAT 
mean?

Glenn

On Saturday 06 September 2008 12:14:11 David Fletcher wrote:
> On Saturday 06 Sep 2008, Glenn R Williams wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > This is a little off topic, but I was just wondering if anyone seen the
> > new Dell Mini 9? I got an email from them and the ad says:
> >
> > OPERATING SYSTEM(Ubuntu)
> > Mini OS powered by Ubuntu 8.04
> >
> > Glenn
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> No, I've not seen that one, but I have seen the little Elonex laptop
> stocked by Carphone Warehouse in the UK. Nice little machine I think,
> apparently it has 1G RAM and 80G hard drive, runs Ubuntu, and sells for
> GBP220. And I'm told that it is selling well.
>
> Watch out, $soft!
>
> PS Why do all of these machines run Ubuntu rather than Kubuntu? Is it the
> LTS issue?
>
> Dave
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