[wplug] Linux Notebook Recommendation

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Thursday 07 May 2009 6:48:01 pm Greg Simkins biz wrote:
> I finally received my new Mini 9 from Dell (Inspiron 910).  You can  
> see from the date on the earlier email that it took a month to get it.
> 
> I thought perhaps the delay was so that Dell could ship the new remix  
> 4.09 edition, but I see that it came with the LTS version 4.08.  I  
> will wait a while before upgrading.  I assume that Dell support for  
> ubuntu is neglible to non-existent.  Most of the instructions that  
> came with the new Dell Mini presupposed I was running Windows.  There  
> was a small booklet for getting started in ubuntu. One note told me to  
> immediately go to support.dell.com for updated BIOS.  Even though I  
> typed in my service tag (barely legible due to tiny size), Dell gave  
> me two options for OS:  Windows and BIOS.  The only downloads  
> were .exe files.  But even though the Linux support sucks, I am glad I  
> made a statement and purchased a native Linux install.

Sometimes they'll have a zip if you look around enough.  Also possible that 
unzipping the exe (yeah, sometimes you can unzip them) will reveal an ISO to 
make a boot cd for installing the BIOS.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
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