I'd like a "100"

[Chris Puttick]

Mine's a 99... And I'm sure mapping the 3 multimedia buttons to
appropriate applications would be easy!

Samsung X60
Centrino Duo
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 (as yet proprietary drivers)
some other stuff

3D graphics in widescreen, bluetooth, modem (AFAICT), Gb Ethernet,
wireless, sound, suspend, hibernate, dual display, all the function
keys (although the mysterious SRS button doesn't audibly do anything),
scroll section on mousepad, remote control (no, really...), all works.

And the only messing around was getting the proprietary graphics
drivers sorted, and hopefully AMD/ATI will sort that issue out shortly
one way or another.

Cheers

Chris

PS presumably everything works in the Ubuntu Dell laptops?

On 20/06/07, sounder-request at lists.ubuntu.com
<sounder-request at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:32:11 -0500
> From: "Matthew Nuzum" <newz at bearfruit.org>
> Subject: I'd like a "100"
> To: sounder at lists.ubuntu.com
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> I found this article to be quite inspirational:
> <http://www.venturecake.com/dont_feel_like_screwing_around_to_get_your_laptop_working_with_linux/>
>
> Basically, the author is suggesting a classification of computers,
> referred to as "100s," that completely and flawlessly work out of the
> box (or directly after install) with Ubuntu and without any
> configuration, terminal usage or adding extra repositories.
>
> We've come a long way from the days of being warned that using X could
> potentially damage your monitor... but how many computers out there
> are 100s? My computer works well, but not during the first week after
> an upgrade/install - and still, it's more of an "85" than a "100"...
>
> The implication here is that not only should 100s work with the
> current distribution, but should continue to work as the system is
> upgraded.
>
> Once it becomes relatively easy to buy a "100", we'll be a lot closer
> to closing bug #1.
>
> P.S. I don't care to buy computers via mail order... won't it be sweet
> when we can walk into Best Buy, pick out a computer and be running
> Ubuntu flawlessly within an hour?
> --
> Matthew Nuzum
> www.bearfruit.org/blog
> newz2000 on freenode
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:56:47 +0800
> From: "Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: I'd like a "100"
> To: Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org>
> Cc: sounder at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <1182315407.5012.15.camel at localhost.localdomain>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> On Tue, 2007-19-06 at 22:32 -0500, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>
> > My computer works well, but not during the first week after
> > an upgrade/install - and still, it's more of an "85" than a "100"...
>
>
> I've never had a problem with upgrades/installs (except for my printer
> going west on me and having to be re-added which was a pain in the butt
> to diagnose).  But overall, my laptop works OK with Ubuntu.  And, as of
> some upgrade I didn't notice so I can't pin-point it, I even gained the
> ability to sleep it or hibernate it!  :O
>
> Still, I'm about a 75.  Maybe an 85 if the modem isn't important (it
> isn't to me).  Modem doesn't work.  3D acceleration doesn't work.  Sound
> card doesn't work.
>
>
> > Once it becomes relatively easy to buy a "100", we'll be a lot closer
> > to closing bug #1.
>
>
> When that day happens -- if it happens (I see some strong cultural
> trends in the F/OSS movement that seem opposed to it happening!) -- I
> think bug #1 will be history.
>
> --
> Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter at gmail.com> (GoogleTalk:
> ttmrichter at gmail.com)
> Experts in advanced countries underestimate by a factor of two to four
> the ability of people in underdeveloped countries to do anything
> technical. (Charles P Issawi)
>


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