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The 2015 Dell XPS 13 sputnik edition is similar and will have full support for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS out of the box. It's still in the last stages of development &
by tdicola 12y ago
The 2015 Dell XPS 13 sputnik edition is similar and will have full support for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS out of the box. It's still in the last stages of development & bug fixing from what I understand though: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/4613/t/19613910?pi22229=6 http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/46...
- wtbob 12y agoYeah, but 'full support for Ubuntu' doesn't necessarily mean 'full support for Linux'; I've learnt that the hard way.
- icebraining 12y agoWhat do you mean?
- pwnna 12y agoSometimes vendors will include proprietary kernel modules that's only licensed to Ubuntu or works only on Ubuntu. I think this happened to some broadcom chips.
- icebraining 12y agoCan't they just be copied? It's not like other distros use a different kernel (maybe a different version, but that's usually easy to adapt to).
- hobarrera 12y agoCopying binary kernel modules isn't guaranteed to work across kernel versions. There's a stable API, but not a stable ABI. Heck, Ubuntu's kernel actually has lots of patches, so unless you carry those along, the modules may even not-work on a same kernel version for some other distro.