Project Sputnik: Developer laptop from Dell!

Posted 09 May 2012 - 12:58 PM

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Made possible by an internal innovation fund, project Sputnik is a 6 month effort to explore the possibility of creating an open source laptop targeted directly at developers. It is based on Ubuntu 12.04 and Dell’s XPS13 laptop.

Well I'll be damned. This looks really nifty and I wouldn't (*cough cough*) mind if I figured out how to be a guinea pig for this.

You crazy linux users - what's up with the tool set? Does it seem legit? Is there anything else needed? Remember this is for web developers.. the article also has some chatter on 'developer profiles'.

Install image:
http://hwe.ubuntu.com/uds-q/dellxps/

The writer said they are working with dell to address the following issues:

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An issue with brightness
The Wifi hotkey
The touchpad and multi touch support

The last one is still being worked on.

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Basic Install

== standard meta packages ==

ubuntu-desktop^

standard^

== scm ==

git
git-core
bzr
bzr-gtk
bzr-git
python-launchpadlib
== utilities ==
screen
byobu
tmux
meld
juju
charm-tools
charm-helper-sh
euca2ools
puppet
chef (available post install)
== editors ==
emacs
vim
vim-gnome
== browsers ==
chromium-browser
firefox
== common build tools/utilities & dependencies == fakeroot build-essential crash kexec-tools kvm makedumpfile kernel-wedge fwts devscripts
libncurses5
libncurses5-dev
libelf-dev
asciidoc
binutils-dev

Edit: if you were looking for the XPS 13's specs there's the link. It's an ultrabook.. 13.3" screen.. dual core i5/i7... 4gb ram.. 128gb/256gb SSD.. etc..

This post has been edited by modi123_1: 09 May 2012 - 01:05 PM