Tag: ubuntu
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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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Update: Dell XPS 13 laptop, developer edition – Sputnik Gen 4
We have been getting a ton of questions around the 4th generation Sputnik (XPS13 laptop, developer edition) and when it will be available. As you may have seen, last week at Sundance we broke the news of our brand new Dell Precision M3800, developer edition pre-loaded with Ubuntu. The XPS 13 isn’t far behind. We’re…
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Welcome the Dell Precision M3800 mobile workstation, developer edition
Update March 17: Great review in Network World — Review: Dell’s Ubuntu-powered M3800 Mobile Workstation is a desktop destroyer Since the planning stages of project Sputnik over two years ago we wanted to offer two versions of our developer-focused systems. The idea was to have both an ultra mobile laptop and a beefier workstation offering, a beauty…
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Synaptics Touchpad drivers now in Test Kernels
Great news, yesterday the i2c Linux kernel drivers from Synaptics made it upstream and are in the proposed repository. This is relevant for those Sputnik 3 users who have upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to either 13.10 or 14.04 LTS. If you want to start kicking the tires before the drivers hit updates, you can enable the…
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Developers share experiences running Ubuntu on Dell M3800 and XPS 15
Back in November when we launched Sputnik 3, we also announced its “unofficial big brother,” the Dell M3800 Precision workstation and the Dell XPS 15. This announcement was based on the after-hours work that Dell Linux engineer Jared Dominguez did to test and document the system. Quite a few developers have referenced Jared’s work, taken the…
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Sputnik 3 — Great Reviews from the Blog-o-sphere
At the end of last year we launched the third generation of the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, aka Sputnik 3, which features the 4th generation Intel processors. This Ubuntu-based laptop is the third in a line of developer focused systems which began life as the internal skunk works effort, “Project Sputnik.” Thanks to strong community input and support…
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Introducing Sputnik 3 and its unofficial big brother
First, a little background. Nearly a year ago today we launched the first Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition. This Ubuntu-based client-to-cloud platform was the result of an internal skunkworks effort, Project Sputnik. Thanks to strong community input and support the project became a product. Within a few months of launching the initial XPS 13 Developer…
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Talking to the Docker Dudes
This morning a group of us here at Dell met with Ben Golub, Jerome Petazzoni and Nick Stinemates of dotCloud, the company behind the wildly popular open source project, Docker, “the Linux container engine.” They came to sample the great barbecue and to chat about how Docker might potentially work with Project Sputnik, the Crowbar Project…
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Shuttleworth raves about Dell XPS13 developer edition
At the OpenStack summit last month we caught up with Ubuntu and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth. Below is a quick snippet taken from our chat with Mark where he talks about the Dell XPS 13 developer edition aka Project Sputnik. Mark dubs the system “freakin’ awesome” and the “environment of choice for anyone doing web…
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Game on! Ubuntu comes to Alienware
Ubuntu has been available on Dell business laptops for quite awhile, including the recently introduced XPS 13 developer edition. A few weeks ago we announced that we were expanding our Ubuntu certification beyond our cloud servers to include Dell’s 12G servers. Today we are announcing that Ubuntu is coming to another member of the Dell…
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Sputnik 2 is here: Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition goes 1080p and lands in Europe
When we launched the Ubuntu-based XPS 13 developer edition at the end of November we got a lot of great press. That being said, the two complaints we heard loud and clear were 1) the resolution is too low, and 2) it needs to be available outside the US and Canada. Since that time we…
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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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Project Sputnik – Beta Cosmonauts chosen
First of all, I would like to thank all the applicants to the Project Sputnik beta program for their patience. Since we announced the program last month we have been working on implementation, traveling mostly uncharted waters here at Dell. After working through countless details and seeing what could actually be done in a timely…
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Quick Sputnik Update
I apologize for the radio silence since OSCON. Since announcing that we would be delivering a product this fall, our little team has been working hard to get us locked and loaded on the roadmap. We have also been focusing on the Profile tool that Canonical has been building for us. The other big…
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OSCON: Tim O’Reilly chats with Mark Shuttleworth
Here’s the last of my posts from OSCON. The conversation below took place right after Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote. Tim and Mark start off by talking about Mark’s persistence of vision and what keeps driving him. At the 2:00 minute mark they talk about Project Sputnik, the buzz around it at OSCON and where it has…
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OSCON: Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote
On the Thursday at OSCON, Ubuntu and Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth gave a great keynote entitled, “Making Magic From Cloud To Client.” He did the entire keynote and live demo on a project Sputnik laptop (a Dell XPS13 running Ubuntu 12.04LTS)! Here it is in its entirety: Some of the ground Mark covers: A fantastic…
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OSCON: Project Sputnik Explained + Coverage recap
The week before last I had a fantastic time at OSCON, seeing old friends and making new ones. As always, the hallway track was the one I found most enlightening. On the second day we announced that project Sputnik would be going from project to product in the fall and got a fantastic response (see…