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…
More info from the tech team: The XPS 13 9343 utilizes the Microsoft Precision Touchpad specification in I2C mode. The specific feature within the Microsoft Precision Touchpad specification is the “Confidence” feature: Confidence Confidence is used to indicate that the contact does not have any dimensions (height or width) > 25mm that implies that it…
In addition to the recent fixes I posted for the XPS 13 developer edition, here is one more from the team. thanks Broadcom bug Some customers may experience an issue where their system crashes when switching wireless networks while running the factory install of Ubuntu 14.04. The issue appears to be a bug within the…
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…
We are aware of some issues that need to be addressed with our XPS 13 developer edition. While patches have been made available (or coming soon), we are working to add these fixes to the systems at the factory. Given that we want our customers to have the best experience possible, we have temporarily stopped new sales…
Once again we want to thank the entire community for your posts containing feedback and questions to the Dell TechCenter forum and this blog regarding the Ubuntu-based XPS 13 and M3800 developer editions. Last month we posted links to four knowledge base articles addressing: wireless drivers, keyboard repeat, suspend/resume and cursor freezes. Today we are…
In the last few weeks Dell has expanded its consumer line up with additional Ubuntu machines: both the economical Inspiron series as well as the high-end, XPS 13 developer edition. The new economical Ubuntu laptops are made up the Inspiron 14 3000 and Inspiron 15 3000 (14 & 15 denote the screen size) which each offer four…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Last month in the States we announced the availability of Sputnik 3, the XPS 13 Developer Edition featuring the 4th generation Intel processors. This laptop, which is touch-enabled, is replacing the existing XPS 13 Developer Edition. We had hoped to make the offering available online across Europe a couple of weeks about but a few online glitches kept…
When we first introduced Project Sputnik over a year ago we talked about two community projects: the profile tool and the cloud launcher. We garnered a fair amount of attention and made some progress but unfortunately not as much as I would have liked. I am very happy to report therefore that recently we have…
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…
Last week Dell’s cloud group was out in force at the OpenStack Summit in Portland, Oregon. Its amazing to see how the event has grown since the first design summit back in July of 2010. I got to catch up with a bunch of people, and attend a few sessions and some parties. I also…
Last week we announced the arrival of the 1080p version of the XPS 13 developer edition, code name Sputnik 2. At that time the system was available online in the US and Canada and from Dell reps in Europe. Today the system is available online in the following European countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany,…
On Monday, we announced the new 1080p display for the XPS 13 developer edition and its upcoming availability in Europe and beyond. To support that launch, here is the official spec sheet as well as a brief presentation on the project and resulting product. Stay tuned for more news. Pau for now…
Last week I was out in the Bay Area attending the Open Compute (OCP) Summit. The event was packed and full of energy. My employer Dell was a platinum sponsor and we were showing off some pretty cool stuff: At today’s Open Compute Summit in Santa Clara, California, Dell showed off a new generation of…
Here is the second interview I did from the floor of Dell World. I talk about the following three topics: The Web vertical – understanding and meeting the needs of web companies [1:20] The 4 emerging cloud solutions we were showing at Dell world [2:25] How Dell is promoting innovation internally Check it out: Extra-credit…