Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu in the wild - down to earth review (article)

2007-07-16 Thread Matthew Nuzum
On 7/16/07, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 16/07/07, Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Check this with the devs, I put a comment similar to this on the > > website and they asked me to take it down because it wasn't accurate > > anymore. The text based installer (or the

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu in the wild - down to earth review (article)

2007-07-16 Thread Chris Rowson
> On 16/07/07, Matthew Nuzum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check this with the devs, I put a comment similar to this on the > website and they asked me to take it down because it wasn't accurate > anymore. The text based installer (or the desktop overall, not sure > which) needs 256MB of RAM, just

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu in the wild - down to earth review (article)

2007-07-16 Thread Chris Rowson
I added blueprint suggesting that the live cd warns users with 256MB > memory that they should use the alternate CD for installation. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/warn-on-low-memory-install Chris -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu in the wild - down to earth review (article)

2007-07-16 Thread Matthew Nuzum
On 7/16/07, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is something that really needs to be addressed in the > installation documents. When installing on a machine with 256MB or > less of RAM the user should be recommended to use the alternate > install. Check this with the devs, I put a comme

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu in the wild - down to earth review (article)

2007-07-16 Thread Sarah Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Rowson wrote: > This chap decided to try and run the live CD in 256MB of RAM (and I > reckon his laptop graphics would be borrowing a portion of that > anyway). So if - (as has been the case in my experience with > integrated graphics) his lap

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu in the wild - down to earth review (article)

2007-07-16 Thread Chris Rowson
> This article is well worth reading if you love Ubuntu. > > It is not particularly favourable, but I think it is typical of what > will be many others in future now that Ubuntu has got a visible place > on many peoples radar. It offers how others see us. Gold dust for > Marketing I suggest. It's

[ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu in the wild - down to earth review (article)

2007-07-16 Thread alan c
This article is well worth reading if you love Ubuntu. It is not particularly favourable, but I think it is typical of what will be many others in future now that Ubuntu has got a visible place on many peoples radar. It offers how others see us. Gold dust for Marketing I suggest. I know there