ubuntu on dell latitude 620

by Alexander Vassbotn Røyne

12:52:13 Friday, July 27 2007

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ubuntu on dell latitude 620

published: 12:52:13 Friday, July 27 2007, modified: 13:02:18 Friday, July 27 2007

ubuntu on dell latitude 620

Ever since I got the laptop I use at work, I always wondered what it was like to have a GNU/Linux OS on it. I've experimentet with a Compaq Evo N800 and Fedora releases before, but that didn't work like a charm. However, the Dell 620 and the Ubuntu Studio based on Feisty Fawn really worked like a charm!

I'm not posing as a preacher of GNU/Linux OS here, but it works mate. The install was much easier than the Windows, but there are some quirks yet to be fixed; The partitioning is not fit for a layman, you know as well as I do that to fiddle with partitioning when you don't have a clue is a no-no.

Ok, this is what works out of the box:

This did not work out of the box:

As you can see, this is not really big issues Ubuntu has with out of the box installs. The gap between GNU/Linux and Mac Os/Windows is closing in faster and faster. I believe that after Dell has launched their Ubuntu boxed deliveries to outside of US countries, the gap would soon be gone, forever.

As a little note: I still remain to find a program in Windows that does not have an equal or better opposite in GNU/Linux. Do you?

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