Bruno Girin wrote: > How heavily customised? Does it come with non-standard software and > drivers or is it just a case of having it heavily Dell branded? Heavily branded, as you'd expect, but annoying things like no easy access to upgrades, repositories other than the pre-installed one and so on. I know all these things are easy to overcome with a bit of script editing, but it's even easier to start over and re-install the whole system. Other than the software sources gui app, the software is very standard, and the only specialised driver required is a Broadcom wifi driver that is there in the Ubuntu restricted repo. I think you are right in thinking that Dell regard Linux as 'niche'. It just seems a shame.
Barry -- From Barry Drake (The Revd) Health and Healing advisor to the East Midlands Synod of the United Reformed Church. See http://www.urc5.org.uk/index for information about the synod, and http://www.urc5.org.uk/?q=node/703 for the Synod Healing pages. Replies - [email protected] -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
