Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2010-12-30 Thread Paul Sutton
On 29/12/10 21:07, Yorvyk wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:20:11 + Colin Lawclan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 28 December 2010 19:45, Nigel Veritynigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: ... I installed Ubuntu 10.4 LTS. I removed the bottom task bar completely so as not to complicate matters with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2010-12-30 Thread Barry Drake
On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 09:12 +, Paul Sutton wrote: How about being consistent and saying Ubuntu is a free and open source alternative to windows and office. Or is that an out of date tag line. When that was suggested, it was (rightly IMO) pointed out that 'alternative' implies, 'well of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2010-12-30 Thread bodsda
I don't think any interface changes are necessary. Microsoft have made significant changes to the UI recently, it would be no harder to learn how to navigate Ubuntu's UI than it would be to learn how to use that bloody ribbon in MS Office Bodsda Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2010-12-30 Thread Grant Sewell
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:12:35 + bod...@googlemail.com wrote: I don't think any interface changes are necessary. Microsoft have made significant changes to the UI recently, it would be no harder to learn how to navigate Ubuntu's UI than it would be to learn how to use that bloody ribbon in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2010-12-30 Thread bodsda
Yeah :) Bodsda --Original Message-- From: Grant Sewell To: Ubuntu-Uk Cc: bod...@googlemail.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required Sent: 30 Dec 2010 11:28 On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:12:35 + bod...@googlemail.com wrote: I don't think any interface changes are necessary. Microsoft

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed ....

2010-12-30 Thread Barry Drake
someone sent me a link to (http://nakedcomputers.org/) and on it is a little firm in Andover called ElpaTech. They are at: http://www.elpatech.co.uk/ and they offer a range of PC's with a choice of OS including Ubuntu pre-installed at very competitive prices. I really like what I see. I just

Re: [ubuntu-uk] e1000e driver woes on 10.10

2010-12-30 Thread daveg
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:22:04 + From: Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net Subject: [ubuntu-uk] e1000e driver woes on 10.10 To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Andy Halsall andyhals...@ictsc.com Message-ID: 4d1b35fc.20...@tdobson.net Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed ....

2010-12-30 Thread bodsda
I don't know them, but I do live in Andover, so I might pop in. Cheers, Bodsda Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:08:30 To: UK Ubuntu