9.10 is a black eye for Ubuntu - suggestion for the future

[Charlie Brune]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Steve Lamb wrote:
>
>   
>> Avi Greenbury wrote:
>>     
>>> Aleks A.-Lessmann wrote:
>>>       
>>>> As I said, I think the Dell Ubuntus are (or were a year ago) a half
>>>> assed attempt at gaining headlines, without any real support by dell.
>>>>         
>>>> But these may only be my experiences
>>>>         
>>> It's quite a widely-held view in my experience.
>>>       
>>     I haven't had that experience.  Ordered my 10v with a ship date 30
>>     days
>> off.  Was shipped in about 3.  Granted, I'm still on 8.04 and wish Dell
>> would release a later version for LPIA but it isn't as if Canonical is
>> doing any
>> better in that dept. and as of 10.04 are dropping LPIA support entirely. 
>> *shrug*
>>     
>
> I've never had a Dell with Ubuntu pre-installed, but my impression from the 
> posts I've seen is that Dell has been much more serious about Ubuntu on the 
> Minis than it was with it's first attempt on the full-size laptops.
>   
I bought one of the very first Dells that had Ubuntu pre-installed. It's 
the Inspiron E1505N. It has worked perfectly ever since.

I think it came with 7.04 installed, which was the current version at 
the time. As soon as Ubuntu came out with a new release (7.10), I 
switched from using Dell's release of Ubuntu to using the releases 
downloaded from the Ubuntu website. They have always worked 100% ... 
yes, that includes the video, wireless, sound, etc. Ubuntu 9.10 is 
working great.

I never looked to Dell to answer any questions, so I can't vouch for how 
good they were or are.

I've looked at the Minis, but they're just too small!!! They make me 
wish that they were bigger or I was smaller! 8-)

Just my two cents,
Charlie