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Earlier this week we looked at the Inspiron Mini 9, which was Dell's inaugural Atom-powered netbook. The hardware to the device was fine and it even shipped with Ubuntu Linux, albeit with a few modifications. In that article though we said we would have Ubuntu benchmarks coming from this 8.9" Intel device and today we have those numbers to share. We are looking at the performance of Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS, Ubuntu 8.10, and Ubuntu 9.04 from the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook. Since Ubuntu 8.04.2, Intel's Atom performance has improved tremendously and Dell should begin thinking about upgrading past the Long-Term Support release.
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.
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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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)