@Vulix,

All I can say is soon :)

Barton

Awesome, looking forward too it. I bought the last generation of the Sputnik XPS 13, but decided not to keep it because of the coil whine issue. Hope it's resolved now

In case anyone's wondering about whether 4k displays work with the new XPS 13: https://plus.google.com/108257328825523409504/posts/K418sGFY1WW?pid=6103942777740182146&oid=108257328825523409504

You sure that's not an Ubuntu thing rather than an XPS 13 problem? If it's a problem with the XPS 13, I might just opt for the lower monitor for better battery life. Hope the Sputnik-version offers us a choice and doesn't stick us with one or the other :P

Is there any reason to wait for the release versus purchasing an xps 13 and installing ubuntu on it yourself?

Some top reasons to wait would be:

- You want support for running Ubuntu versus just installing it yourself.

- Because not everything makes it in time for Ubuntu's release cycle, some stuff needs backporting, which Dell does for you so that the system works out of the box.

- You have ideological reasons (like me--I'm one of "those guys" here at Dell :)

- You're voting with your wallet, and that really matters here when we're trying to convince people with power at Dell that customers really do want to run Linux.

will everything work? Including automatic backlight brightness?

Probably not your department but any idea if the Linux editions are going to be making their way to Australia this time around?

I can easily grab a windows version to wipe and install myself however I figure it's good to show support by buying the Linux one if available.

I'm 100% fine with waiting for the official edition, because having something that works out of the box is great.

That said, how dependent on customizations from Dell are these XPS Developer Editions? If I want to install Fedora on it, will it work fine with all the drivers etc. in the upstream kernel, or does it really require you to run the tweaked version of Linux that comes with the machine?

I'm waiting for the Sputnik-version just so Dell knows my money is going to support a Linux project, not because I particularly care to buy a Dell :P

About Fedora, I imagine that Dell will push some patches into the kernel they ship with Sputnik on their own, and unless they get these patches upstream, you won't see them in other distributions. That being said, since the XPS 13 is Intel-based, I imagine all of the core functionality is already in the kernel and that the only Dell would probably patch in is getting multimedia keys to work and all that. Pure conjecture on my part though so don't quote me