Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dells with Ubuntu
On 5/30/07, Pete Ryland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/05/07, Dianne Reuby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I Stumbled this website last night http://efficientpc.co.uk/ - selling Ubuntu pre-installed in the UK. I'm sure there's a handful of small companies doing this already, but nice to know there's another! Interestingly, their top offering under the MythTV category: http://efficientpc.co.uk/index.php?cPath=23 contains a Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual card which is not 100% working in Linux yet. Interesting point. I was looking carefully at their dual-tuner offering, since they're selling it for probably less than it would cost me to build one. But I don't want to buy something that doesn't work. Can you be more specific about what's not working right now with those tuner cards? -Eamonn -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dells with Ubuntu
On 31/05/07, Eamonn Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/30/07, Pete Ryland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: contains a Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual card which is not 100% working in Linux yet. Interesting point. I was looking carefully at their dual-tuner offering, since they're selling it for probably less than it would cost me to build one. But I don't want to buy something that doesn't work. Can you be more specific about what's not working right now with those tuner cards? It's implemented in hardware as a pci device containing a usb hub with two tuners. There's a bug in the kernel usb-core code which causes kernel oopsen under certain conditions! While the oops was fixed (in the latest v4l-dvb, which you'll have to compile yourself from Mercurial), it can still get the usb disconnect event randomly or just fail to read from or write to the device. Turning off EIT (which contains program information encoded in the stream itself) seems to reduce the frequency of the failures, but it is still remarkably flakey even then. Restarting myth-backend (and sometimes reloading the modules) is necessary to get it working again. Rather annoying if you had set it to record stuff while away on holiday or something! So, basically it works well, but will stop working randomly from time to time, and can still sometimes cause a kernel oops. Pete -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dells with Ubuntu
Alec Wright wrote: It's not about the price. It's about not giving money to Microsoft for something you're not going to use. It's about not having to bother about installing Ubuntu yourself. It's about being guaranteed Ubuntu compatible hardware. It may not be about price to YOU. It certainly is about price for a lot of people. M. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Dells with Ubuntu
I Stumbled this website last night http://efficientpc.co.uk/ - selling Ubuntu pre-installed in the UK. IMPORTANT NOTE (excuse my shout!) - I don't know anything about this firm, I haven't bought anything from them, I don't know anyone who's bought from them. :) I'm not making a recommendation, just passing on information. Dianne Reuby -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dells with Ubuntu
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 08:50 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: It may not be about price to YOU. It certainly is about price for a lot of people. M. Well, to me, £30 extra or whatever it is is worth it if you're getting compatible hardware, and not having to go through the hassle of installing ubuntu etc. -- Alec Wright -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dells with Ubuntu
On 30/05/07, Dianne Reuby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I Stumbled this website last night http://efficientpc.co.uk/ - selling Ubuntu pre-installed in the UK. I'm sure there's a handful of small companies doing this already, but nice to know there's another! Interestingly, their top offering under the MythTV category: http://efficientpc.co.uk/index.php?cPath=23 contains a Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual card which is not 100% working in Linux yet. Pete -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Dells with Ubuntu
Anyone going to USA soon? http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=uscs=19l=ens=dhs~ck=mn -- Diana -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dells with Ubuntu
Why bother? I just compared a Vista vs. Fiesty Inspiron laptop and the answer is It's (like for like*) $29 cheaper to buy a Vista laptop and install Fiesty on it yourself... Jeez... only Dell could replace a $40 OS with a free one and make it $69 more expensive... I really despair sometimes Lee *The headline Ubuntu laptop comes with half the memory and integrated graphics... luxxius wrote: Anyone going to USA soon? http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=uscs=19l=ens=dhs~ck=mn -- Diana -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dells with Ubuntu
On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 11:28 +0100, LeeUKHA wrote: Why bother? I just compared a Vista vs. Fiesty Inspiron laptop and the answer is It's (like for like*) $29 cheaper to buy a Vista laptop and install Fiesty on it yourself... Jeez... only Dell could replace a $40 OS with a free one and make it $69 more expensive... I really despair sometimes Lee *The headline Ubuntu laptop comes with half the memory and integrated graphics... It's not about the price. It's about not giving money to Microsoft for something you're not going to use. It's about not having to bother about installing Ubuntu yourself. It's about being guaranteed Ubuntu compatible hardware. -- Alec Wright -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dells with Ubuntu
Why bother? I just compared a Vista vs. Fiesty Inspiron laptop and the answer is It's (like for like*) $29 cheaper to buy a Vista laptop and install Fiesty on it yourself... Jeez... only Dell could replace a $40 OS with a free one and make it $69 more expensive... I really despair sometimes Lee *The headline Ubuntu laptop comes with half the memory and integrated graphics... It's not about the price. It's about not giving money to Microsoft for something you're not going to use. It's about not having to bother about installing Ubuntu yourself. It's about being guaranteed Ubuntu compatible hardware. But it is about the price, Mr. Average isn't going to try this 'new Ubuntu thing' if it's going to cost him an extra $29 on top of the price of his new Dell... If it's $50 cheaper, he'll sure as hell think about it... and the more you get thinking about it the better... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
