Comment 1488 for bug 1

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 09:15, Randall Ross (rrnwexec)
<email address hidden> wrote:
> @Martin Wildman,
> Kindly advise if your hardware is on the Ubuntu-certified list for both
> Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10.
> The list can be found here: http://webapps.ubuntu.com/certification/

I have 2x Dell Latitude E-5500. When I bought them I was not aware of
the certification list, but however I did research and told my Dell
contact person, that I want a Linux compatible machine. I have paid
attention to have a supported video card built in and so on. I mean,
what do you expect else from people? The list of supported hardware is
a pretty small amount in relation to what is on the market. I already
focus on Dell and models people tell me that they are working.

And guess, it worked without problems on 9.04 (although I remember
there were two issues that have been solved with some updates - if I
remember right) and I had no real issue with 9.10. With 10.04 I have
two issues with workarounds. 10.10 is the worst now.

In fact, currently I strictly refer to the list of certified models,
but it is not always possible to follow that 100%. People see special
offers in shops or at vendor websites or build their PC on their own.
In general I was instructed always to check whether the built-in parts
are Linux-compatible or not.

BTW: Don't know how long it takes after a model is released until
certification has gone through - could there be a serious delay?

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 09:27, Tom <email address hidden> wrote:
> The LTS releases are often quite a lot better than the 6 monthlies but the 6
> monthlies are good fun and do often push into interesting areas.

On my machine I had everything from 9.04 to 10.10 - can't say, that
LTS necessarily was the best from my experience. I would say 9.10 was
for me having the least issues. That said, I do use more applications
now on 10.04 than I did no 9.10 (number of applications in daily use
is increasing I would say).

> So, i tend to have an LTS as my main stable but i use a spare partition for
> exploring and playing around.

Since 9.10 I do contribute with testing from the early betas helping
to push quality - don't leave out a version, but decided not to update
every 6 months on my production machine.

> If something doesn't work in one but does in the
> other then it is usually fixable if you have the time & patience to ask in
> forums or read documentation or find your own way.

Of course, I use the forums and Launchpad for bug reporting. I do my
best to help. If you sum up the hours I helped so far in money, I
could have bought Windows and MS Office with no problem...

--
Martin Wildam

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