Tag: sputnik

  • Developer Edition Knowledge base: XPS 13 and M3800

    Update June 26:  How to Install Broadcom Wireless Driver on XPS 13 9343 from Ubuntu 15.04 Install Media http://www.dell.com/support/article/uk/en/ukbsdt1/HOW10806/en ================================ We want to thank the entire community for your posts containing feedback and questions to the Dell TechCenter forum and on this blog regarding the XPS 13 and M3800 developer editions (Ubuntu). In response to your…

  • XPS 13 Developer Edition takes off

    I wanted to get one more quick post in before I head out for the holidays.  Things have been crazy since the XPS 13 Developer Edition launched almost three weeks ago. In fact no sooner did we start to catch our breath from the product’s launch that Dell World took place.  We had a lot…

  • Sputnik…Wow!!

    We knew that project Sputnik, the idea of creating a developer laptop based on Dell’s XPS13 ultrabook and Ubuntu 12.04LTS, would have appeal but we never could have anticipated the response we’ve gotten. To put it into perspective, the most cumulative views I’ve had of a blog entry before Sputnik was 2,700.   My post introducing…

  • 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…

  • Introducing Project Sputnik: Developer laptop

    -> Update 2/18/2013: Sputnik 2 is here: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition goes 1080p and lands in Europe -> Update 11/29/2012: Sputnik has landed! Introducing the Dell XPS 13 Laptop, Developer Edition Today I am very excited, I finally get to talk about project Sputnik!  In a nutshell, drumroll please, here it is: Made possible by an internal…