[ale] Fwd: Dell Continues Shipping Fresh Linux Laptops

[Jim Kinney]

I inherited a new mac book pro 15 with more pixels than can be seen with
a 2x magnifier.

Fedora 21 runs perfect. The only missing hardware is the built in web
cam that runs on a pci bus instead of a usb bus. The dual thunderbolt
ports work. The caveat is the device using it must be plugged in before
boot.

And I didn't have to fight with the nvidia driver on this beast. Did
have to wiggle in the kmod-wl driver from rpmfusion for wireless.

Wish they had figured out how to make the trackpad symmetric relative to
the keyboard home row instead the overall case (edges at mid-d and mid-l
make for palm/thumb strike issues). Also wish they would get over this
obsession with making the wrist area sharp metal edging.

On Sun, 2015-02-01 at 08:50 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
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> Dell Continues Shipping Fresh Linux Laptops jones_supa writes: In its
> latest move, Dell will be bringing Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to its
> top-of-the-line Precision M3800 workstation laptop and the latest model
> of the Dell XPS 13. Both systems will be running Ubuntu 14.04.1.
> According to Barton George, Dell's Director of Developer Programs,
> programmers had been asking for a better, officially-supported Ubuntu
> developer laptop. This came about from a combination of the efforts of
> Dell software engineer Jared Dominguez and enthusiastic feedback. Specs
> of M3800: 15.6" LCD @ 3840x2160, Intel i7 quad core CPU, NVIDIA Quadro
> GPU, up to 16 GB RAM. The bad news is, as Dominguez explained on his
> blog, this version of the M3800 doesn't support its built-in Thunderbolt
> 2 port out of the box. However, thanks to the hardware-enablement stack
> in Ubuntu, starting with upcoming Ubuntu 14.04.2, you will be able to
> upgrade your kernel to add some Thunderbolt support.
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James P. Kinney III

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gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain

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