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Ubuntu 7.10 on the XPS M1330

“Starting today, customers in Germany, United Kingdom, France and now Spain can purchase Ubuntu 7.10 with built-in DVD playback on the XPS 1330n” — Good move by Dell, shipping Ubuntu on highly desirable hardware… Not yet in Australia though.

(tags: dell ubuntu xps m1330 laptop)

This entry was written by Jeff Waugh, posted on January 25, 2008 at 05:18, filed under del.icio.us. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

Jan Schmidt

Posted January 25, 2008 at 10:17 | Permalink | Reply

What are they using for DVD playback? Or do they mean the laptop has some hardware player built-in too?
jdub

Posted January 25, 2008 at 11:33 | Permalink | Reply

@Jan Schmidt: LinDVD, apparently.
Travis Reitter

Posted January 26, 2008 at 08:33 | Permalink | Reply

I’ve been using the latest Dell Inspiron 1420 with Ubuntu 7.10 pre-installed, and it’s one of the nicest laptops I’ve had so far. No config required to get anything working (that I’ve tried to use, at least), and the keyboard is the most responsive I’ve ever used (and they thankfully put Ctrl at the corner of the keyboard, and made it a decent size).

Here’s to hoping this pilot reaches more and more of their hardware!