Dell Designing Developer Oriented Laptop 399
jones_supa writes "Barton George, director of marketing for Dell's Web vertical reveals information about 'Project Sputnik', a laptop tailored for developer needs in web companies. 'We want to find ways to make the developer experience as powerful and simple as possible. And what better way to do that than beginning with a laptop that is both highly mobile and extremely stylish, running the 12.04 LTS release of Ubuntu Linux,' George ponders. He also gives a quick list of packages that the default installation could include. The machine will base on the XPS13, assessing a couple of its main hardware deficiencies along the way."
According to the article, this is a "6 month project to investigate an Ubuntu laptop. If successful, we have big plans for the effort." It's unclear how closely they are working with upstream, but there's mention of Canonical as a commercial partner so this may mean Dell is working to ensure some of their hardware Just Works (tm) with Ubuntu. The software side is so far just a customized install with developer tools preinstalled. Ars remains skeptical about Dell's strategy for GNU/Linux support, which may be warranted given their track record.
Year of the linux laptop? (Score:2, Funny)
Could 2012 be the year of the linux laptop? And I might not be completely joking here.
Please don't mod this FUNNY (Score:5, Funny)
Keyboard must be easy to clean and resist spills. Test against Cheetos and Mountain Dew.
developers! developers! developers. (Score:3, Funny)
developers. developers. developers. (developers developers developers)
Re:6 months to install Linux? (Score:5, Funny)
6 months to install Linux?
Maybe it's Gentoo.
Know your customers (Score:4, Funny)
We want to find ways to make the developer experience as powerful and simple as possible [...] extremely stylish
Failed, right out of the gate.
Re:Resolution (Score:4, Funny)
Edge case, not worth worrying about ...