The first two have been resolved but the last one re the touchpad is still at large. We have been working hand in hand with Canonical, the commercial sponsor behind Ubuntu and identified three main areas on the XPS13: As Linux users are all too painfully aware, Linux drivers are not always available for various platforms. In putting together the project, the area that we focused on first was hardware enablement.
coming soon, a software management tool to go out to a github repository to pull down various developer profiles.a basic offering of key tools and utilities (see the complete list at the end of this entry).drivers/patches for Hardware enablement.The install image available for Sputnik contains In fact Dell has enabled and pre-installed out-of-the-factory Ubuntu on more computer models than any other OEM. I should also add that Ubuntu was a natural choice not only because of its popularity in the Web world but Dell has quite a bit of experience with it.
When the XPS13 launched we realized that we found the perfect platform to start with and when Dell’s incubation program was announced we knew I had the vehicle to get the effort kick started. To my knowledge, no other OEM has yet made a system specifically targeted at devs and figured it was time to see what that might mean. We thought the idea was pretty cool and filed it away.Īs we continued talking to customers and developers the topic of Ubuntu kept coming up and we came across a fair number of devs who were asking for a Dell laptop specifically based on it. One of the ideas that Stephen tossed out was a Dell laptop running Ubuntu, targeting developers. When we first started setting up the web vertical to focus on companies who use the internet as their platform, we brought in Stephen O’Grady of Redmonk to learn as much as we could about the needs of developers. And what better way to do that than beginning with a laptop that is both highly mobile and extremely stylish, running the 12.04 LTS release of Ubuntu Linux. We want to finds ways to make the developer experience as powerful and simple as possible. To put it in context, Sputnik is part of an effort by Dell to better understand and serve the needs of developers in Web companies.
It is based on Ubuntu 12.04 and Dell’s XPS13 laptop. 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. Today I am very excited, I finally get to talk about project Sputnik! In a nutshell, drumroll please, here it is: > Update : Sputnik has landed! Introducing the Dell XPS 13 Laptop, Developer Edition > Update : Sputnik 2 is here: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition goes 1080p and lands in Europe
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