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Today I’ve got my Dell Inspiron 3520 laptop with pre-installed Ubuntu Linux. This article contains the log, notes and tips about Ubuntu and this laptop.

Shortly about the hardware configuration:

15.6″ (1366×768) LED / Intel Pentium B960 (2.2 ???) / RAM 4 ?? / HDD 500 ?? / Intel HD Graphics / DVD+/-RW / LAN / Wi-Fi / Bluetooth / Camera / Ubuntu Linux 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)

Dell says that for this laptop.

Also, before I bought it the list of Ubuntu’s certified hardware had been checked against this notebook. I found out that this laptop is a certified hardware of Ubuntu but it should have pre-installed Ubuntu only.

After starting the laptop, Ubuntu asked some data about me, what city I am, default login/password, etc. Then I have a working operating system out of the box. I like it!

Then I decided to install some updates. To my surprise, there were lots of updates! 20 minutes of updating the system.

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  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get upgrade

It’s very interesting for me is it possible to upgrade from 11.10 to Ubuntu 12.04 keeping all the drivers for the laptop. Think, I’ll test this later

The next step, is installing the Chromium form the Ubuntu Software Center. Everything is OK.

Then I needed something like Google Talk on Windows but for Linux. Unfortunately, there isn’t an analog of Google Talk for Linux But there’re some chat clients that can work almost like Google Talk. I use Empathy Internet Messaging that comes with Ubuntu.

What about hardware, it works good except of fan. The fan is too loud. I’m going to investigate this problem. I have some links where the similar fan problem mentioned:

Ubuntu heating my laptop
Ubuntu noisier than Windows 7
Fan keeps running indefinitely on Ubuntu after system was temporarily hot

February 23

Today I installed Skype form the Ubuntu Software Center. I logged in without any problems. The look of Skype differs from Windows Skype but it works and there isn’t any ads!

Yesterday, I installed Chromium web browser and logged in with my Google account. Today, when I worked with Chromium surprisingly it installed all the browser extensions I have on Windows. All this happened without restarting a browser.

February 28

I’ve just installed DropBox and there’re some my video files in 3gp format. Ubuntu has just downloaded and installed corresponding codecs for watching the video of this format when I clicked to open the video file!

It isn’t the end! I’m going to continue this log.