On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:53 AM, der.hans <
PLUGd@lufthans.com> wrote:
> moin moin,
>
> http://webapps.ubuntu.com/certification/
>
> I don't see anything listing what certified and compatible mean.
>
> It also appears that the list isn't updated to the vendor page for Dell.
> System76 doesn't have a vendor page on Ubuntu's site. I didn't check the
> others.
>
> http://www.ubuntu.com/dell
>
> That page only mentions 7.10. Maybe Dell hasn't moved on to 8.04. That's
> OK for now, but I hope they move to the LTS release.
Not that I have seen anything to verify it, but good sense might have
dictated that Dell (and others) waited for the 8.04.1 LTS release
which just happened July 1st. One thing I have not seen is what in
8.04.1 that is not part of automatic updates for 8.04 users.
>
> It would be nice if either certified or compatible means that all of the
> hardware works using Free Software drivers.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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