Ubuntu 7.04 Offering—Technical Details Before we announce the availability of Ubuntu 7.04 on select Dell client systems, I'd like to give an overview of what customers can expect from our initial Ubuntu offering. Availabile Software and Hardware The default software from the Ubuntu media will be installed on the system, including kernel and applications.
The peripheral options offered with Ubuntu will be a subset of what is offered with other operating systems. We're offering the hardware options on each system that have the most mature and stable Linux driver support. These hardware options have been thoroughly tested by the Linux team here at Dell.
We configure/install open source drivers for hardware, when possible.
We use partial open-source or closed source ("restricted" in Ubuntu terms) drivers where there is no equivalent open-source driver. This includes Intel wireless cards and Conexant modems.
We will have a wiki page on our linux.dell.com website that gives technical details of the supported systems, information on the device drivers used for system peripherals, details of our Ubuntu factory-installation, and information on the problems we found during our testing, with their fixes/workarounds.
We recommend Linux users buy Dell printers that have PostScript engines in them. The previous hyperlink lists those printers. You can also check in the Tech Specs tab for each printer on Dell.com show if it has PostScript or not. Software and Hardware Not Offered For hardware options not offered with this release, we are working with the vendors of those devices to improve the maturity and stability of their associated Linux drivers. While this may not happen overnight, we do expect to have a broader range of hardware support with Linux over time.
At this time, we are not including any support for proprietary audio or video codecs that are not already distributed with Ubuntu 7.04. These include MPEG 1/2/3/4, WMA, WMV, DVD, Quicktime, etc. We are evaluating options for providing this support in the future. Comment Notification If you would like to receive an email when updates are made to this post, please register here Subscribe to this post's comments using
L'entreprise informatique Dell Computers a annoncé qu'elle lancerait sur le marché trois nouveaux ordinateurs, deux de bureau et un portable, équipés du système d'exploitation Linux. Les ordinateurs posséderont la distribution Ubuntu 7.04 et coûteront près de 599 USD.
Ce changement, selon la compagnie, est imputable au fait que les utilisateurs sollicitent ce système d'exploitation qui sera installé sur ces nouveaux ordinateurs. Le produit vendu consistera en l'ordinateur et un CD-rom qui pourra être installé de manière automatique ou manuelle, selon la préférence de l'utilisateur.
À la différence des matériels équipés en Linux, Dell a informé que le hardware qui équipera ces produits sera le plus compatible possible avec cette distribution. Si ce n'est pas déjà le cas, Dell a l'intention de engendrer du code libre pour les pilotes de matériels afin qu'ils fonctionnent correctement sous Linux.
Cependant, il est probable que cet Ubuntu ne procurera aucun support technique pour la copie multimédia qui ne sera inclus dans le produit de vente, comme les MPEG 1, 2, 3 et 4, le WMA (Windows media audio), les WMV {Windows media video) et Quicktime, ainsi que pour la reproduction des DVD.