Dell Latitude E6320 and Fresh Build of Ubuntu 'Classic' 11.04

After having great success with Xubuntu 11.04, the damn thing stopped responding to the power button. A small niggle, sure, but one I wasn't willing to live with. After trolling forums and trying to find a solution until 1am this morning I went to bed without success. Less anoying, but equally difficult to find a solution to was that when you used the panel power button to 'shutdown', Xubuntu would log out to the Xfce login screen. Balls.

Time to have another look at trying to get Gnome working on Ubuntu. Last time I tried to install Gnome 3, but it broke. This time I decided to install Gnome 2, but after just minutes of searching I discover Ubunut 11.04 comes shipped with 'Ubuntu Classic' mode. I felt so dumb.

Clean build of Ubuntu 11.04 'Classic' with 'New Wave' theme

So time for another 'Fresh Build' post. The following is how I've set up this machine...

Dell Latitude E6320 and Xubuntu 11.04

Hardware issues continued with the new Latitude. The Ubuntu certified E6320 has a different hardware spec to the machine I bought, and while I might be able to extract some of the hardware devices from the E6500, I wanted a more complete OS solution.

UPDATE, 27 August 2011: I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 'Classic'... see this post to see how stupid I was being and some set-up instructions.

Ubuntu 10.04LTS on Dell Latitude E6320

Wireless Networking (wlan)
There was a drama with the install... when I bought this thing I was half expecting to have compatibility issues with the 3G card, but I wasn't expecting the Intel(R) Centrino(R) Advanced-N 6205 (802.11 a/b/g/n) WiFi card to be a problem. Bleeding edge, huh?

New Geek Toys on Their Way

This week I dropped the hammer on a Dell E6320 i5 laptop, and a Samsung Galaxy S II.

They both should arrive early next week, so I might do some unboxing pics and a bit of a review.

The E6320 will work with my E-Port Plus docking station, 13.3" screen, i5 2.5GHz (+ 'turbo'), 4BG RAM and a spinny hard disc and cost $728 delivered.
Plan for the Dell is to install my 64GB SSD, install Ubuntu 10.04LTS install, with W7 32bit running in Virtualbox. I'll also run a 1.5TB Seagate FreeAgent with eSata transfer adapter to carry data.

The SGSII is a 1.2GHz Android device with 2GB of internal storage.
Plan for the SGSII is Oxygen ROM install. Should be pretty swift.