[ubuntu-uk] BECTA suggests schools should prefer open source to M$

2008-01-11 Thread Mac
At last, some sense from a Government agency about IT in schools: News report http://www.cio.com/article/171450 "British schools should not upgrade to Microsoft's Vista operating system and Office 2007 productivity suite, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) said

Re: [ubuntu-uk] jeOS!! umm does it work?

2008-01-11 Thread Chris Rowson
Check out this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JeOS Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] jeOS!! umm does it work?

2008-01-11 Thread Chris Rowson
> > > > On 11/01/2008, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 12:42:36PM +, Michael Holloway wrote: > > > Has anybody else tried jeOS yet? > > > > > > I have tried it on 3 different VMWare servers, 2 AMD based, and one > > > Intel. > > > > You installed a system design

Re: [ubuntu-uk] jeOS!! umm does it work?

2008-01-11 Thread Kris Douglas
On 11/01/2008, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 12:42:36PM +, Michael Holloway wrote: > > Has anybody else tried jeOS yet? > > > > I have tried it on 3 different VMWare servers, 2 AMD based, and one > > Intel. > > You installed a system designed for running virtu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] jeOS!! umm does it work?

2008-01-11 Thread Alan Pope
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 12:42:36PM +, Michael Holloway wrote: > Has anybody else tried jeOS yet? > > I have tried it on 3 different VMWare servers, 2 AMD based, and one > Intel. You installed a system designed for running virtual machines _inside_ a virtual machine (VMWare)? As I understan

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sending Gnome popup notifications over a network...

2008-01-11 Thread Kris Douglas
On 11/01/2008, Chris Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dave Walker wrote: > > Chris Smith wrote: > >> Joshua Scotton wrote: > >>> I was getting the same error message until I changed this part > >>> XAUTHORITY=~owner_of:0/.Xauthority; > >>> to > >>> XAUTHORITY=/home/user/.Xauthority; > >>> > >>>

[ubuntu-uk] jeOS!! umm does it work?

2008-01-11 Thread Michael Holloway
Has anybody else tried jeOS yet? I have tried it on 3 different VMWare servers, 2 AMD based, and one Intel. No matter how hard i try, i cant get it to work. It installs fine, and then freezes on boot, failing to load the Kernel. It would appear that it cant mount the drive. Even when i edit the g

Re: [ubuntu-uk] More and more GNU/Linux

2008-01-11 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 00:09 +, Kris Douglas wrote: > > > On 11/01/2008, James Dalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Another low-cost GNU/Linux laptop. Oh yeah, it's running Ubuntu+Enlightnement M. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/list

Re: [ubuntu-uk] More and more GNU/Linux

2008-01-11 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 00:09 +, Kris Douglas wrote: > > > On 11/01/2008, James Dalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Another low-cost GNU/Linux laptop. This is starting to look > like it's > > gathering momentum (I hope)... > > > > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] More and more GNU/Linux

2008-01-11 Thread Pete Stean
It's the "no moving parts" and the promised 10" screen for the Eee that are the draw for me - I don't want another laptop with a spinny thing in it, what's special about that?? Apparently the build quality is nowhere near as good as the Eee either - and I've handled an Eee and they're put together