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they are at 8.10 with their restore CD/DVD's

Story: Why Dell Should Upgrade Past Ubuntu 8.04 LTSTotal Replies: 0
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number6x

Apr 17, 2009
11:20 AM EDT 		The latest dell re-master cd of Ubuntu is available at the dell linux support wiki and is based on 8.10: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_8.10

earlier versions: 8.04: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_8.04 7.10: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_7.10

In versions 8.04 and previous dell released its own patches in a launchpad repository, they have changed and are including patches to support Dell hardware in the normal Ubuntu releases. They have an 8.10 launchpad repository that is empty.

http://ppa.launchpad.net/dell-team/ubuntu/dists/

I suppose they would use this if there was a critical piece of software needed for their hardware that would not be accepted into ubuntu regular.

I note there is a launchpad repository for Jaunty, although it is not yet released. I would guess that there would be a Dell restore DVD based on 9.04 Jaunty some time after 9.04 ships (Dell is not too quick with this)

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