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Sputnik Program Taking Beta Testers for the Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook with Ubuntu

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http://techie-buzz.com – Ubuntu fans are going to have a gala time ahead of them, and even more so, if you are a developer. Dell is planning to bring in the Ubuntu experience to laptops, and it wants to do things in the proper way. That is why, Dell has a beta-testing program in place for the Dell XPS 13 Ultraboook, with Ubuntu pre-installed. This beta testing program is called Sputnik, and it might send Dell sales skyrocketing through the laptop market for two reasons: cheaper prices and free software.The page announcing the Sputnik Beta testing program reads,Be a test pilot for the ultimate developer laptop.Dell is (General)

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Dell XPS is really an awesome laptop and today it has become even more awesome. Earlier this year, Dell announced their "Project Sputnik", intended to produce a developer-focused Linux laptop using their popular XPS-13 Ultrabook as base hardware.

After months of testing and refining, Project Sputnik has finally matured and Dell has launched developer friendly XPS 13 Ubuntu Ultrabook in US and Canada.

Priced at $1449, XPS 13 has following specs:

3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3517U (4M Cache, up to 3.0 GHz) Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 13.3" HD 720p 8GB2 DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz 256GB Solid State Drive Intel HD 4000 2.99 lbs in weight

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Today Dell announced its official re-entry into the Linux laptop market. Project Sputnik, first announced in May, is graduating from Dell’s internal incubator program into a real product. According to project lead Barton George, Dell will sell a special “developer edition” of its XPS13 Ultrabook starting this fall.

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Linux fans in Europe have reason to celebrate this week with Dell’s announcement that its “Sputnik” XPS 13 laptop powered by Ubuntu, which the company released in the United States in December 2012, is now available on the other side of the ocean as well. As a bonus, Dell has added some hardware upgrades to the laptop for all markets.

Dopo System76 e il suo Bonobo Extreme, arriva il momento per Dell di presentare il suo nuovo notebook con Ubuntu 12.04 preinstallato. Si tratta del Dell XPS 13 Laptop Developer Edition.

Few days back we reported that Dell has announced Project Sputnik, a six month research effort to explore the possibility of creating an open source Ubuntu laptop targeted directly at developers.

Dell has now announced that the experiment was successful and they were surprised by the amount of interest it has generated.

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Does anyone know anything about the status of the Sputnik project PPA for the Dell XPS 13? Are there any plans to keep it up-to-date or at least ahead of the versions coming out of the standard repos? Also, will it be updated to keep up with Raring? It looks like it may be falling behind - it would be sad if it became unusable.