majorsilence

I got sick of the brokenness of the Ubuntu install that came with the dell mini, so like many others I have installed Ubuntu 8.10 to solve my problems. And you know what? It did solve all my problems. Everything is now working. I did have to touch a configuration file to enable sound, but compared to the problems with the system it came with it was well worth the five seconds that it took to enable audio.

So following instructions that were found on http://www.ubuntumini.com/ made the process very simple. I wonder why dell is not able to do this.

I bought and then received on December 24, 2008 my new dell minis. I bought one with Ubuntu and one with XP. The XP one is working well even if the way the mouse pad works is annoying. Ubuntu on the other hand has been a rather large disappointment. It is not worse than any other install of it that I have done, but it is not much better.