Dell E1505

Does beryl and wireless work out of the box?

Wireless works great out of the box. I am too new to know what beryl is?!?

Beryl is a compositing window manager that has support for fancy effects and other things such as the desktop cube. It is an offshoot of Compiz. Think of it as the Linux version of Vista's Aero.

Depending on your wireless card it may work out of the box. The Intel Pro wireless card works out of the box and I believe the Dell wireless card takes a little work to get going but there is a tutorial on here on how to do that that works great.

Beryl works...ish. It is still a beta product and as such will have some flaws and glitches, however, it does work with a little fenagling depeding on what graphics card you have and there is a tutorial on here too about how to do that as well.

If the wireless is Intel yeah it should work out of the box. the last version of Ubuntu (Feisty) comes with compiz installed by default but not enabled; it has the basic special effects like the cube and the wobbly windows. For Beryl which has more special effects, you will have to install it separately. You can look at the Beryl wiki.

Beryl will work fine if you have 3D enabled, which may or may not be hard to do depending on what video card you have.

Feisty comes preinstalled with compiz labelled as "desktop effects". You can turn it on in system > preferences > desktop effects.

It is labelled as pre-release software, a "technology preview". It is alpha software and not stable enough for production machines.

ALL the hardware in these Dells with ubuntu preinstalled will work perfectly out of the box.