Running SUSE 9.1 on a Dell Precision M70. Huge screen works fine in Suse, and as I use an external PS2 keyboard, no chance of accidentally tapping the mouse pad. Wifi works fine on M70's internal wifi card. Great cheap Linux laptop.
Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed For Developers
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll chip in for him. They're made of cheese, unreliable, have shitty bios implementations, crap battery life and horrid screens and keyboards.
That's an approximation of a review, but "shitty" is a relative thing. Compared to what? Nothing is more annoying than opinions like "I hate X because it sucks" without an insightful counter-point like "You should try Y because it's much better for reasons A, B and C."
Shitty compared to my reference point of "fit for purpose".
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#33I fully expect it to be $140 cheaper than a comparable machine running Windows 7 Pro.
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#34People can develop on 13" screens?
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#35"Configuration as code". In other words, "configuration as plain text files". Another innovation that's actually been in *nix since forever.
As a result of this, I can turn any computer into a me-friendly machine in about an hour. Install my favorite Openbox-based distro (Crunchbang), copy over dotfiles I've already customized, and install every package from a list that's been exported from my main laptop.
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#36I like the pop-under ad for gambling when you visit this site. Classy.
thanks for pointing that out we are not doing that on our end so wanted to let you know that..it might be coming from another source...i'm investigating
john (founder of the site)
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
On devopsangle.com or somewhere else? We don't do any sort of banner advertising, popunder or otherwise so unless our site has been hacked (I'll look into it) then it sounds like you've got malware on your computer.
Well, I visited this link twice to be sure and Safari pitched up a pop-under ad both times. I assure you, I do not have malware. It happens when the justin.tv widget in the side-bar loads. It attempts to load something that redirects to http://rts.pgmediaserve.com/03d458/
I cannot duplicate the error..sometimes i've seen providers have f'd up dns where some bad stuff happens..
Re: Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed For Developers
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
On devopsangle.com or somewhere else? We don't do any sort of banner advertising, popunder or otherwise so unless our site has been hacked (I'll look into it) then it sounds like you've got malware on your computer.
Well, I visited this link twice to be sure and Safari pitched up a pop-under ad both times. I assure you, I do not have malware. It happens when the justin.tv widget in the side-bar loads. It attempts to load something that redirects to http://rts.pgmediaserve.com/03d458/
I cannot duplicate the error..sometimes i've seen providers have f'd up dns where some bad stuff happens..
Re: Dell Announces A Linux Laptop Designed For Developers
#39>Project Sputnik, a product of Dell’s new internal incubation fund, features not just full hardware support for Ubuntu on the XPS13, but a notion of “profiles” for developers
They could have stopped at "full hardware support for Ubuntu". Nobody cares about their crapware.
Just two weeks ago I bought an HP ProBook for a colleague for the sole reason of being Linux certified. It came with a Suse license but he's using it with Ubuntu.
The one Dell laptop I could have bought came with an Ubuntu version from 2010.
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#40I think this thread is a great example of why developers are notoriously tough customers (myself included)