The new business strategy Dell is having a good acceptance, the Dell computers with Ubuntu preinstalled have had very good initial acceptance, and one of possessing a XPS with this operating system has had their experiences.
a machine in question was the most prepared of the three initially offered by Dell, a Dell XPS 410n with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor at 2.13 GHz, 2 Gbytes of DDR2 memory, a Geforce 7300 LE and a hard drive of 500 Gbytes .

It seems that despite a few initial problems - the screen resolution was not fully set up - the user that their experiences in the known UbuntuForums was delighted with the installation.

Among other things, the article includes catches of partitioning scheme that Dell is using Linux for these facilities, which include a 2 Gbytes formatted in FAT32 to support diagnostic tools implemented Dell DOS.

Their conclusions: Dell is offering fantastic, although some details are missing for polishing the drivers and owners activation NVIDIA 3D support to enable such things as window managers Beryl / Compiz.

Via | The Inquirer

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