The version they are shipping is guaranteed to work. If they updated to Karmic, they would need to pay real money again. I doubt they got a license for “all future versions”. They have also licensed a proprietary DVD player(the only legal way to watch DVDs in Linux) and other minor things. Or that Ubuntu won’t change the sound subsystem when the new one doesn’t work or release a network manager that breaks the network, AGAIN. If anything it is less likely as many Ubuntu developers and testers will be using the machine and if nothing else sending the bug reports down to people working upstream.ĭell is supporting the machines as they ship them, they cannot guarantee that nVidia or whatever other crap their customers choose to put into their configuration, will release a working driver for Ubuntu 11.10.
I don’t think it is more likely to break on update than any other hardware configuration.
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