[ILUG] Fwd: Dell: Ubuntu Linux 9.04 now available

[stephen mulcahy]

"Though it's late, we're now offering Ubuntu 9.04 on
a few more Dell machines to customers in the United
States."

Do they offer any Ubuntu machines in Ireland?

-stephen

Andrew McCarthy wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> The e-mail below is the first in a loooong time to the
> linux-announce at dell.com list. Might be interesting to some of ye.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andrew
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> -----
> 
> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:48:17 -0500
> From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com>
> To: linux-announce at dell.com
> Subject: Ubuntu Linux 9.04 now available
> 
> John Hull, in this blog post, describes Dell's Ubuntu Linux 9.04
> product offering.
> 
> http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2009/10/09/ubuntu-linux-904-technical-details.aspx
> 
> Note from Lionel: It's been a while since I've talked about Linux on
> Direct2Dell. Shortly after Ubuntu 9.04 was released in April 2009, we
> had a request from IdeaStorm user Shannon VanWagner to start
> pre-loading 9.04. Though it's late, we're now offering Ubuntu 9.04 on
> a few more Dell machines to customers in the United
> States. Specifically the Studio XPS 13, Inspiron 15, and the Inspiron
> 537 desktop. The Mini 10 and the 10v are still running a customized
> version of the 8.04 version of the Ubuntu OS. And the Mini 10v can be
> ordered with Ubuntu Moblin Remix Developer Edition.
> 
> To see all the systems we're offering with Linux, go to
> www.dell.com/ubuntu.
> 
> With that context, I'll turn things over to John Hull so he can shed
> light on what to expect from Ubunu 9.04.
> 
> --Lionel
> 
> ----------------------------------
> 
> I'd like to give a quick update on the technical details for what we
> have added with our 9.04 release. We have continued to build and
> improve upon on what we did for our previous Ubuntu offerings, and
> here are some of the highlights:
> 
>     * We now provide Cyberlink's PowerDVD application for DVD playback
>       (instead of LinDVD which we previously shipped). We also
>       continue to provide Fluendo GStreamer codecs for mp3, wma, and
>       wmv playback, which will work with your favorite Linux media
>       player.
>     * We created and provided a new GUI tool for creating
>       recovery/restore media for the OS
>     * We provide a new method to recover your Ubuntu preload from the
>       hard drive
>     * We have chosen to use GRUB 2 bootloader instead of the Ubuntu
>       default GRUB 1 (a.k.a. GRUB legacy) bootloader. We have been
>       testing GRUB 2 for over a year now, and feel it is ready for
>       general use. The Ubuntu community has decided to make GRUB 2 the
>       default in Ubuntu 9.10, so our customers will already have that
>       feature enabled.
>     * A common complaint we heard a few years ago was that there were
>       no Linux drivers for Dell wireless cards. As of the date of this
>       blog post, all currently-shipping Intel- and Dell-branded
>       wireless cards (as well as most from the past several years) are
>       now supported natively in Ubuntu 9.04. These drivers should also
>       be included in most other newer Linux distributions as well.
>     * Our Ubuntu 9.04 offering is still the 32-bit version and not the
>       64-bit version ("amd64" architecture). We continue to evaluate
>       when to make the transition, and the main sticking point
>       continues to be solid, stable Adobe Flash support for
>       64-bit. There are currently options
>       available in the community, including a beta of a native 64-bit
>       Flash
>       plugin. However, none of these have proven to be reliably
>       stable, so we'll continue working with Adobe until a viable
>       option is available.
> 
> For more information, our Dell wiki page for 9.04 can be found at the
> previous link.  If you would like to download and install 9.04 with
> our custom Ubuntu ISO, it can be downloaded here.
> 
> As always, please report any OS issues in Launchpad, or you can always
> ask any general questions to our linux-desktops mailing list..
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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Stephen Mulcahy     Atlantic Linux         http://www.atlanticlinux.ie
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