Well, I just finished installing Ubunut 8.10 on a Dell Vostro 1510.
It worked like a charm, just grab a recent ISO, boot, install.
Some hints:
- If you want to run Windows as Dual Boot, finish installing it before trying to install Ubuntu.
- Activate 3rd- party Drivers for for Nvidia and the Broadcom WLan- card.
So far even suspend and hibernate seem to work correctly.