But that Dell page does not tell the whole truth.
It advertises "Windows® . Life without WallsTM . Dell recommends Windows 7." but then goes on to have a screenshot of Windows XP.
And if you go to the Euro Dell site and try to look for Ubuntu systems
http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/emea/segments/gen/client/en/ubuntu_landing?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs
you find all the ones offered are only Windows 7.
So it advertises two operating systems (XP and Ubuntu) which it does not supply.
I wouldn't bother correcting him. If you want to run Linux, you have a clear warning not to buy Lenovo. From my family's personal experience, I'm not sure I'd buy Lenovo either if I wanted to run Windows, with the amount of non-functioning vendor-specific software supplied.
[ 1615.074173] scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM buildwin Photo Frame 1.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 1615.131784] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 1615.132336] sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
[ 1615.132793] sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5
[ 1618.229611] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[ 1618.243632] ISOFS: changing to secondary root
and has files on it
-r-xr-xr-x 1 a root 49 2007-12-13 17:07 Autorun.inf
-r-xr-xr-x 1 a root 135904 2008-07-25 11:46 DPFMate.exe
-r-xr-xr-x 1 a root 1344 2008-05-19 18:53 flashlib.dat
-r-xr-xr-x 1 a root 22044 2008-07-23 16:15 LanguageUnicode.ini
-r-xr-xr-x 1 a root 96281 2008-06-11 16:29 MacDPFmate.zip
-r-xr-xr-x 1 a root 758 2008-07-07 12:21 StartInfoUnicode.ini
Hey, I always stick odd USB devices into Linux first to check them out.
For background info, this photo frame does nothing when first connected. You can set it to "transfer" mode, at which point it emulates a USB CD-ROM of 304 Kbyte size. That CD image tries to autorun the DPFmate software to compress and transfer images to the device. The photos are *not* visible on the device through normal access, must have transferred them to a hidden area. I'd be interested if anyone has more info on the USB protocols used.
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