Review: DELL UBUNTU

Dell as a pioneer in the industry has recently released first line of consumer desktop computers and notebooks with pre-installed Linux, Ubuntu 7.04.Dell ubuntu has lots offer, Ubuntu is extremely powerful, practical, absolutely free, and ready-to-run desktop Linux distribution, which is highly compatible for mainstream use. Dell Ubuntu is especially recognized for this user friendliness and accepted wide. Any causal and advanced notebook user would find this Dell Ubuntu’s operating system wonderful. Some may worry about support, but the Canonical management is coming up with a high reputation and head of steam in the extended Ubuntu community must offer upright required support from third parties as well. In a very short span of time, Dell Ubuntu has got excellent response. Users are pleasingly surprised by the responsiveness of this machine and the comfort set-up.

Dell Ubuntu comes with pre-installed default software from Ubuntu media on the system comprising Kernel and other applications. Open source drivers for hardware could be installed/configured whenever required by Dell. The peripheral options provide DELL UBUNTU by is a subset offered operating system. You will find the most mature and stable Linux driver support offered in the hardware options. Linux team claims that the hardware options have been tested thoroughly at Dell. Ubuntu use half-done open source or closed source drivers with no same open source driver. Further comprise Intel wireless cards and Conexant modems. Getting information about any technical detail is as well easy with Dell Ubuntu, you have wiki page intergraded on linux.dell.com that gives complete support and necessary information on device drivers.

The basic DELL UBUNTU comes with 1GB of 533 MHz Dual-Channel DDR2 SDRAM designed for memory and a 250GB SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) to support hard drive. The E520n generally uses the processor of 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 CPU. For graphics part it uses 250MB NVIDIA GeForce 7.00LE TurboCache. It feature enables the graphics processor, the 7300LE, for making use of the computer’s chief memory when your tool demands more graphical performance than the card could offer with its 256MB on-board memory. E150 generally comes with the upgraded memory to 1GB, 120 GB of hard drive, integrated DVD writable drive, and amazing screen of UtraSharp TrueLife. It further has cool design with black keys, silver and white framing with gorgeous bright and clear screen.

DELL UBUNTUpackage comes with a chart with complete set up instructions: from plug in AC adapted to the network cable. It has an every catchy feature – the system could be switched to “Suspend” mode by choosing the option after clicking the on/off button on the screen. When buying Dell Ubuntu you get 1 year limited warranty, mail-in service, and outstanding 24x7 technical support. Technical support may be restricted to hardware issues and for software support you may have to trust online documentation and Ubuntu forums. Company is also planning broader range of hardware support with Linux over time and plans to evaluate the support option for audio or video over the time in future.