Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

2014-12-08 Thread Alan Pope
On 6 December 2014 at 15:51, George Tripp wrote: > I feel it's a pity that Canonical don't collaborate with a supplier to > provide PC / laptops which are definitely compatible with Ubuntu. Canonical does. For example there are around 300 different lines of Dell machines which are certified to r

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

2014-12-08 Thread Colin Law
On 8 December 2014 at 12:42, George Tripp wrote: >>> I feel it's a pity that Canonical don't collaborate with a supplier > >>> to provide PC / laptops .. >> >> Why would installing Ubuntu invalidate the warantee? You can always >> restore Windows from the install CDs or whatever restore syst

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

2014-12-08 Thread George Tripp
>> I feel it's a pity that Canonical don't collaborate with a supplier >> to provide PC / laptops .. > > Why would installing Ubuntu invalidate the warantee? You can always > restore Windows from the install CDs or whatever restore system is > provided with the machine. > In theory this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Team Reboot

2014-12-08 Thread TT Mooney
Hi Popey - I think the question I was trying to get to is: does Canonical have resources/templates/marketing plans that they use with user groups (or generally for evangelical marketing)? Apple used to fund student ambassadors, do demo days, provide collateral, etc. This was part of the overa

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Team Reboot

2014-12-08 Thread Alan Pope
On 7 December 2014 at 23:35, TT Mooney wrote: > I attended the 14.10 launch party at the Lion and Unicorn, and there was > only one person there who didn't come with me (hey, Avi!). So I don't > think that one goes in the win section. Surely, in Canonical's HQ city, > we might do a little better?