Ubuntu on Inspiron 5150
Published by peter April 12th, 2006 in info, linux.Today my accountmanager brought me my company laptop:a full blown inspiron 5150! Allthough I’ll really miss the widescreen of my Inspiron 8500 lots of stuff to be happy about:
- 3.2 Ghz P4 /HT
- 1 Gig of ram
- 80 Gig hd
- DVD RW
- GeForce FX Go 5200
- XVGA (1440×1200)
The first thing I did was wiping the disk and install Ubuntu (5.10), took less then 40 minutes and I’m allready typing this post from a fresh installation!
Didn’t put time in getting the onboard WLAN to work, doesn’t seem to work OOTB…. I’ll give it a go after doing the dishes 
In a couple of days the 8500 will probably be transfered to my wife, she’s getting really annoyed by the 1024×768 screen of the iBook G4 she’s currently using.
Niiiice! Battery life is still good, despite the monster 3.2 HT?
-andy
I actually didn’t test the battery life yet… still installing and configuring (allthough the next post mentions getting WIFI to work, installing an SMP kernel seems to break this… still working on it!)