Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on PC Specialist Laptops

2012-07-09 Thread Colin Law
On 8 July 2012 22:25, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 July 2012 22:12, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 8 July 2012 22:02, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 July 2012 21:51, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 4 July 2012 14:10,

[ubuntu-uk] Gaming on Ubuntu

2012-07-09 Thread Daniel Case
Hey guys, If you haven't heard, Windows 8 drops in October (around the release of 12.10) and a lot of speculation says people will be looking for alternate operating systems, Windows 8 gets rid of a lot and it is another Windows Vista as it were, whereas Unity has become a pleasure to use. So I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Museum outing

2012-07-09 Thread Alan Bell
On 07/07/12 21:25, Bruno Girin wrote: On 20/06/12 23:43, Bruno Girin wrote: Hi all, Anybody fancy a geeky museum outing one weekend to go see the Codebreaker exhibition at the Science Museum? http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/turing.aspx Right, so would Saturday 28th be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gaming on Ubuntu

2012-07-09 Thread Barry Drake
On 09/07/12 20:53, alan c wrote: I think you have an excellent point. I notice though, that although the more technical Windows user I meet does now, often, actually know of the existence of Ubuntu, it is still most unlikely that the general users of Windows will even have heard about it. I

[ubuntu-uk] http://ubuntuadverts.org/

2012-07-09 Thread Barry Drake
Hmm Just clicked on the link in my tagline (http://ubuntuadverts.org/) and we don't exist any more! Shame. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gaming on Ubuntu

2012-07-09 Thread Anton Kanishchev
The best way to get a linux gaming page could be a updated ebook style format-much like the introduction to linux (in pdf format from ages ago) that explains everything clearly for newcomers. A book style approach (in digital format) could include documentation on games, sources (ppas) of games

Re: [ubuntu-uk] http://ubuntuadverts.org/

2012-07-09 Thread Alan Pope
On 09/07/12 22:15, Barry Drake wrote: Hmm Just clicked on the link in my tagline (http://ubuntuadverts.org/) and we don't exist any more! Shame. Seems no meetings for a year and it looks like the owner left to the Elementary OS project.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] http://ubuntuadverts.org/

2012-07-09 Thread Alan Pope
On 09/07/12 22:56, Phill Whiteside wrote: long time no chat! There are some people from lubuntu who would most likely be interested in getting this back up running for all of the flavours. Why? Given the team seems to be dead, no meetings, no other activity? Do you want to poke Jono over

Re: [ubuntu-uk] http://ubuntuadverts.org/

2012-07-09 Thread Barry Drake
On 09/07/12 22:56, Phill Whiteside wrote: Long time no chat! There are some people from lubuntu who would most likely be interested in getting this back up running for all of the flavours. Hi . For what it's worth, Cassidy James has dropped out of the project, and I'm not sure if

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gaming on Ubuntu

2012-07-09 Thread Andres Muniz
- Mensaje original - The best way to get a linux gaming page could be a updated ebook style format-much like the introduction to linux (in pdf format from ages ago) that explains everything clearly for newcomers. A book style approach (in digital format) could include documentation on