Tag: linux
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Dell’s Developer line turns 10 — Looking back at a Project Sputnik’s first decade
Originally published February 3, 2023 10 years ago, Dell’s first developer system, the Ubuntu-based XPS 13 developer edition became available in the US and Canada. What made this product unique was not only that it had been developed out-of-process and by a team largely made up of volunteers, but it targeted a constituency completely new…
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Introducing the 2020 XPS 13 Developer Edition — (this one goes to 32!)
We are proud to announce the latest and greatest Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition. The system, which is based on 10th Gen Intel® Core™ 10nm mobile processors, represents the 10th generation of the XPS 13 Developer Edition (see a list of the previous nine generations below). This 10th generation system features an updated design and…
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Project Sputnik: Want to join the cause?
Passionate about Linux? About Developers? We’ll have we got the opportunity for you. 😊 The Project Sputnik team is planning to beef up our efforts and we’re looking for a passionate soul to join the cause and help drive Dell’s line of developer laptops and workstations. This individual would have an opportunity to handle community…
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Dell’s Linux landing page goes live!
One subject we often get feedback on, and it doesn’t tend to be the positive kind, is the difficulty in finding Linux systems on Dell.com. The following tweet does a good job of summing up people’s frustrations Im sure you get this all the time – but I dont understand why it’s so hard to…
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Welcome the new Dell Precision developer editions! Gen 3 of the beefy line up
Project Sputnik keeps rolling on! Today I’m proud to announce the new the Linux-based Dell Precision Mobile workstation line: the 3530, 5530, 7530 and the 7730. These systems, which represent the fourth generation of the Precision developer editions, come preloaded with Ubuntu and have been RHEL certified. These new thinner, lighter, premium-built Precision mobile workstations feature…
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XPS 13 Developer Edition — the 7th gen is here!
-> Updated June 22, 2018 – Three 16GB/FHD configs added to the line up in the US -> Updated Jan 26, 2018 – Added list of countries that offer the XPS 13 developer edition offline. Today I am excited to announce the availability of the 7th generation of the Ubuntu-based XPS 13 developer edition. Project…
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Ubuntu comes to the Windows desktop — OpenStack summit
Recently an announcement was made that took a lot of people by surprise. Canonical and Microsoft announced that Ubuntu was now able to run on the Windows desktop. Ubuntu Goes to Microsoft’s Windows 10 Bash – LinuxInsider Dustin Kirkland was the main man on the Canonical side who drove this. I caught up with Dustin at…
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Live in Europe: Next gen XPS 13 developer edition
[Update — April 8: Offline country URLs added] A couple of weeks ago we announced the worldwide release of the Ubuntu-based mobile Precision mobile line as well and the US availability of the next gen XPS 13 developer edition. Today I’m happy to announce that the Skylake-based XPS 13 developer edition is now available in…
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Containers, VMs and Joyent’s Triton — how they relate
While I was in San Francisco back in November, I stopped by Joyent’s headquarters. The main purpose was to talk about the Docker/Triton platform we are setting up in the CTO lab. While I was there I chatted with Joyent’s Casey Bisson, director of product management. Casey took me through a couple of white board sessions…
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Containerizing an old school Dell application
About a year ago Senior Linux engineer Jose De la Rosa had heard so much Docker and container-mania that he thought he’d find out what the fuss was all about. Jose started looking around for an app within Dell that he could containerize and came across Dell’s OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA). In case you’re wondering, OMSA is an in house…
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Meet the project Sputnik team + Case Study
The other day Canonical came to Dell for a show and tell. The Sputnik team, normally located in various buildings in Austin and Round Rock, all found ourselves in attendance at the event. Here is a quick meet-the-team video introducing ourselves, saying where we’re from and declaring our favorite TV show. Additionally, here is a short case…
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4th gen Dell XPS 13 developer edition available!
I would first like to thank everyone for their patience and support as we worked through various bugs that crept up. This has taken longer than we would have liked but I’m happy to say that as of today, the Dell XPS 13 developer edition is now available in the United States, Canada and Europe! A short history…
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Available in Europe: Precision M3800 developer edition
At the end of January we announced the launch of the Dell Precision M3800 mobile workstation, developer edition. This beefy complement to the existing XPS 13 developer edition is the direct result of feedback from the community who have been asking for a larger system. Over the past few weeks we have been adding EMEA availability.…
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Installing Debian 8 on a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition
Over the break, Eric Mill put together great step-by-step instructions showing how to install Debian 8 (Jessie) on a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition. Eric also had some great things to say about the laptop and program themselves: Dell calls their program Project Sputnik, and it is managed by a friendly team of Linux engineers inside Dell…
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Ars Technica provides detailed review of Dell XPS 13 developer edition
If you’re thinking about getting a Dell XPS 13 developer edition you might want to check out the comprehensive review published by Ars Technica this weekend: “It just works: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition Linux Ultrabook review — Dell’s substantial investment in making a functional Linux Ultrabook pays off.” Here is the summary intro: In an…
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Talking about Project Sputnik and the importance of Devs to Dell
At Dell World I was interviewed about Project Sputnik, the resulting XPS 13 Developer Edition we launched and the importance of developers. Here’s the interview (notice my fashion forward blue Dell shirt 😉 Extra-credit reading Dell World Triples Attendance, Rewards Attendees with Prizes & Expanded Online Experience Pau for now…
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Sputnik has landed! Introducing the Dell XPS 13 Laptop, Developer Edition
A little over six months ago we announced a scrappy skunkworks project to pilot a developer solution based on Ubuntu 12.04LTS and our sleek XPS 13 laptop. Thanks to the amazing feedback and support we have received from the community, today we are announcing the availability of the resulting official product – the Dell XPS…
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Initial thoughts from the Project Sputnik Beta Cosmonauts
The Project Sputnik Beta program has been going for several weeks now. We have an intrepid group of cosmonauts and there have been a bunch of blogs posted, tweets tweeted and a flurry of activity on the forum. In general the feedback has been very positive with some folks having issues around wifi and the…
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Redmonk on Developers and Project Sputnik
Today at the Ubuntu Cloud Summit here in Oakland I grabbed sometime with Redmonk analyst Stephen O’Grady. It was Stephen who originally brought up the idea of creating a Dell laptop running Ubuntu targeted at developers. I talked to Stephen about how he would characterize today’s world of developers and what he feels project Sputnik…
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Talking about Project Sputnik
Last Friday Cote and I took a break from the mad rush getting ready for today’s Sputnik announce and grabbed a conference room to record a short video. Below we discuss the project, how it came about, what its goals are and where it could go from here. -> Weigh in on Dell IdeaStorm: Project…