[SGVLUG] Dell's Ubuntu Laptop Program Enters Beta, 'Blows Away' Expectations

[Braddock Gaskill]

Some may wait for Sputnik, but my new System 76 Gazelle Professional came
yesterday with Ubuntu pre-installed and it is *sweet*.  ;)

-braddock

On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:42:40 -0700, Christopher Smith <cbsmith at gmail.com>
wrote:
> So, it hasn't blown away the user's expectations. It's blown away
> Dell's expectations.
> 
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:32 PM, yoshio <ak209 at lafn.org> wrote:
>> Found from http://planet.ubuntu.com/
>> ( http://planet.debian.org/ is also a great resource)
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue274
>>
>> Dell's Ubuntu Laptop Program Enters Beta, 'Blows Away' Expectations
>>
>> Katherine Noyes, PCWorld, reports on the success of Project Sputnik,
the
>> effort that resulted in a prototype open-source laptop based on Ubuntu
>> 12.04 and Dell’s XPS 13 hardware. Now entering the Beta phase,
interested
>> parties are asked to sign up to participate. “We've been blown away by
>> the number of people who have wanted to be beta participants,” Barton
>> George of Dell explains and goes on to say “if this gets the traction I
>> think it will, you can bet Dell will start looking at others who would
>> benefit from a similar solution.”
>>
>>
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/259229/dells_ubuntu_laptop_program_enters_beta_blows_away_expectations.html
>>
>> There‘s no shortage of Asus Ubuntu netbooks in Italy
>>
>> Joey Sneddon, OMG! Ubuntu!, posts about the shortage of ASUS netbooks,
>> preloaded with Ubuntu, in the UK. Discussing the shortage, Sneddon
>> mentions that in Italy it is a completely different situation. Since
>> Sneddon's source is in Italian, he presents some specs of the ASUS
>> netbooks to make it easier for ones who are not familiar with the
Italian
>> language.
>>
>>
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/07/theres-no-shortage-of-asus-ubuntu-netbooks-in-italy