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I've been thinking of picking up one of these. I was surprised they still have Gutsy on them. I really think they should update to Hardy, as it's LTS, and ...
- 06-09-2008 #1Linux Newbie
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Dell Ubuntu computers - still with Gutsy
I've been thinking of picking up one of these. I was surprised they still have Gutsy on them. I really think they should update to Hardy, as it's LTS, and has a much better kernel and other tweaks. My main issue would be updating to Hardy, then losing the DVD playback...
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- 06-09-2008 #2Blackfooted Penguin
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I've been thinking of picking one up, but not to use with Ubuntu as I plan to install a different distro. As for shipping Hardy, DELL probably needs to do a lot of testing and patching before Hardy works solidly on their hardware before shipping it with Hardy preinstalled.
- 06-09-2008 #3Linux Guru
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I'd agree, testing is the big factor. I'd say it's on the way. On the other hand it's only a matter of choosing upgrade when you boot...upgrading only becomes a problem when you are using unreliable 3rd party repositories.
- 06-09-2008 #4Linux Guru
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I'm sure they will do this eventually. I seem to remember reading about it recently, as a matter of fact. I just can't remember where.
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