Dell - Dirk-Jan's log

Dell XPS 13 still going strong

For some months now I use a Dell XPS 13 laptop as my daily driver and I am still quite happy with it. The main reason was roaming the office

firmware

Firmware overload

On the 9th of december I received a notificaton about new firmware for my laptop. As mentionted on my previous post I would take screenshot to show how it looks

Dell

Linux pre-installed laptop

Yesterday I received my first laptop which had Ubuntu pre-installed. It is a Dell XPS 13 developer edition (7390). The idea is to replace the large workstation under the desk

Debian

PE1950 installation hassle

Installing debian etch (40r4a) on a Dell PowerEdege 1950 with SAS disks was not to easy. Debian crashed the fist reboot after the install, because of not loading or finding the correct module in initrd. The second issuse was swaping the drive from sdb