{"id":287,"date":"2008-10-21T23:44:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T03:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2008-10-21T23:44:14","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T03:44:14","slug":"dell-laptops-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2008\/10\/21\/dell-laptops-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell Laptops &#038; Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d heard that Dell were offering Ubuntu Linux on some of their laptops and I hadn&#8217;t really looked into it. But I came across this page the other day and it&#8217;s pretty neat to get Ubuntu (or any Linux) preloaded on a laptop from a major vendor:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ubuntu on Dell Laptops\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dell.com\/content\/topics\/segtopic.aspx\/linux_3x?c=us&amp;cs=19&amp;l=en&amp;s=d\">http:\/\/www.dell.com\/content\/topics\/segtopic.aspx\/linux_3x?c=us&amp;cs=19&amp;l=en&amp;s=d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to support coming from a major vendor, and Dell even offer&#8217;s a repo so you can get BIOS updates for support hardware:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Dell BIOS's for Ubuntu\" href=\"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2008\/02\/05\/dell-bios-updates-using-linux\/\">http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2008\/02\/05\/dell-bios-updates-using-linux\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;m still partial to getting <a href=\"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2008\/09\/23\/lenovo-laptop\/\">Lenovo&#8217;s T400<\/a> over a Dell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d heard that Dell were offering Ubuntu Linux on some of their laptops and I hadn&#8217;t really looked into it. But I came across this page the other day and it&#8217;s pretty neat to get Ubuntu (or any Linux) preloaded on a laptop from a major vendor: http:\/\/www.dell.com\/content\/topics\/segtopic.aspx\/linux_3x?c=us&amp;cs=19&amp;l=en&amp;s=d It&#8217;s good to support coming from a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2008\/10\/21\/dell-laptops-ubuntu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dell Laptops &#038; Ubuntu<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,22],"tags":[191,377,602],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laptop-tech","category-linux","tag-dell","tag-laptop","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}