On 22/05/11 15:30, Alan Bell wrote:
On 22/05/11 11:28, Martin Houston wrote:
He said that getting a fresh XP image onto a pepurposed machine this
way takes just 4 minutes!
yeah, you can drop an Ubuntu image on disk pretty quick too. I had them
cloning with a PXE boot and clonezilla image
infringements, especially if that
sharing is done by open wireless links.
Message: 3
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 17:35:43 +0100
From: gazzpmg...@gmx.co.uk
To:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Race Online 2012 - lets give EVERYONE buying
a second user PC a chance
On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 11:31 +0100, alan c wrote:
On 23/05/11 09:53, Avi Greenbury wrote:
They're specifically not. If, on first boot, they were presented with
Grub asking if they wanted Linux or Windows
with respect, I think the choice is between 'Ubuntu' and Windows
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Martin Houston wrote:
The hard disks in the Race Online PCs are all 80G at least so why is
dual booting not an option there as standard.
Because it's confusing. If people are learning to use computers, it
makes sense that they boot into one install of one OS to do the
learnings of the
On 23/05/11 09:53, Avi Greenbury wrote:
Martin Houston wrote:
The hard disks in the Race Online PCs are all 80G at least so why is
dual booting not an option there as standard.
Because it's confusing. If people are learning to use computers, it
makes sense that they boot into one install of
On 23/05/11 09:53, Avi Greenbury wrote:
They're specifically not. If, on first boot, they were presented with
Grub asking if they wanted Linux or Windows
with respect, I think the choice is between 'Ubuntu' and Windows
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I was at OpenTech yesterday and there was a massive computer fair going
on at ULU at the same time.
There were many people selling ex corporate PCs (mostly Dells and HPs)
for prices that looked better value than the Race Online Scheme!
A typical example was a dual core desktop with 1G ram and
If you want to help the 9 million not on line yet...
Some videos from the conference that has just happened:
http://www.nd11.co.uk/vod/nd11-video-archive/
David Cameron, Martha Lane Fox, Mark Thompson DG of the Beeb.
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On 18/05/11 23:48, Alan Bell wrote:
On 18/05/11 21:19, Paul Sutton wrote:
Ok if people have a login to launchpad they can edit the loco team page
which thus far has had me doing this,
huh? where?
do we sign up individually or sign up as the south west loco team and
have the loco team
On 19/05/11 08:42, Paul Sutton wrote:
so i sign up then join the ubuntu team, ?
paul
don't think it works like that quite.
I filled out the partner form, which should mean that Ubuntu-UK turns up
on this page http://raceonline2012.org/partners?page=1title=U in a few
days.
as a team we can
On Thu, 19 May 2011 06:36:34 +0100
Alan Bell alanb...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Just call it Ubuntu, problem solved.
Couldn't agree more.
Ask a lot of windows users waht browser they use and the answer will be Vista
or Windows 7. If you tell people they have Linux on their phone they will deny
it
On Wed, 18 May 2011 18:00:36 +0100
Alan Bell alanb...@ubuntu.com wrote:
I would rather they just stuck a respectable amount of ram in them and
put Ubuntu on them, it works just fine on low spec machines. I don't
really see the point in having an OS that works in low memory
conditions when
On 19/05/11 10:21, Avi Greenbury wrote:
Alan Bell wrote:
Just call it Ubuntu, problem solved.
Ah, that was supposed to be the bulk of my point, but I apparently
completely forgot to mention it...
I should really put something in place that stops me sending out emails
in the middle of the
http://www.raceonline2012.org
The main site says that MS are offering a machine through
www.getonlineathome.org that has 1Gb for £95. It makes the Remploy offer
look a bit poor in comparison.
Barry
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On 19/05/11 20:42, Barry Titterton wrote:
http://www.raceonline2012.org
The main site says that MS are offering a machine through
www.getonlineathome.org that has 1Gb for £95. It makes the Remploy offer
look a bit poor in comparison.
Barry
yeah, there are several providers, there could be
A few weeks back Tim Dobson posted a link to Access Space in Sheffield.
I dropped in there last Saturday, and they made me very welcome. They
also told me that they will make up a machine from used parts, loaded
with OSS, for nothing. That's right: free software on a free computer.
You have to
On 17/05/11 23:30, Martin Houston wrote:
The under £100 cheap PCs for the disadvantaged go on sale today.
See
http://www.ecycleonline.co.uk/choose-your-computer---from-9200-8-c.asp
http://www.ecycleonline.co.uk/choose-your-computer---from-9200-8-c.asp
Ubuntu 10.10 is there as a solid and no
yeah, I don't think Windows and Office is worth £3 either.
Anyhow, to get the Windows version you need to qualify:
To qualify for this offer you must be receiving financial help from the
government in one or more of the following ways. (If requested, I can
provide evidence of this.)
*
On 17/05/11 23:30, Martin Houston wrote:
Sorry for the long post but this has just made my blood boil and I
think we should all be making the maximum fuss we can about this.
I think I will give them a call and see if we can work with them
constructively to provide better information about the
On 18/05/11 08:27, Alan Bell wrote:
On 17/05/11 23:30, Martin Houston wrote:
Sorry for the long post but this has just made my blood boil and I
think we should all be making the maximum fuss we can about this.
I think I will give them a call and see if we can work with them
constructively
On 17/05/11 23:30, Martin Houston wrote:
The under £100 cheap PCs for the disadvantaged go on sale today.
See
http://www.ecycleonline.co.uk/choose-your-computer---from-9200-8-c.asp
http://www.ecycleonline.co.uk/choose-your-computer---from-9200-8-c.asp
Ubuntu 10.10 is there as a solid and
On 18/05/11 08:27, Alan Bell wrote:
On 17/05/11 23:30, Martin Houston wrote:
Sorry for the long post but this has just made my blood boil and I
think we should all be making the maximum fuss we can about this.
I think I will give them a call and see if we can work with them
constructively to
Martin Houston wrote:
Sorry for the long post but this has just made my blood boil and I think
we should all be making the maximum fuss we can about this.
To whom, and why?
To the vendor who has gone out on a limb and chosen to ship a flavour of
Linux? To the Government who have allowed such
On 18 May 2011 13:05, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote:
So what can we do about this, I am currently helping at a youth music
project that has now got 4 / 5 ubuntu computers up and running, I am
struggling to maintain what we have on zero budget
What help do you need and where?
if we
Hi Alan,
for such low spec machines it *may* be worth trying the Lubuntu suite on
them. Lubuntu gets full adoption at 11.10 by Canonical, the 11.04 is happily
running now. For really old kit (pre i686) lubuntu are going to continue to
backport to the 10.04 stable beta the lxde and pcmanfm etc.
On 18/05/11 13:05, Paul Sutton wrote:
oh and people have full time jobs, so we need to do this when we have
time and between other activities.#
yeah, but some people have a full time job for which more Free Software
in the UK would be a strategic benefit. I really want more people to be
I would rather they just stuck a respectable amount of ram in them and
put Ubuntu on them, it works just fine on low spec machines. I don't
really see the point in having an OS that works in low memory
conditions when as soon as you open Firefox and LibreOffice it is going
to be painful
I'd like to see the 100,000 volunteers for the Race Online 2012 campaign
encouraged to download and try Ubuntu so they are at least aware of it and
can explain if anyone asks them. They'd also need to be told where to go for
tutorials and assistance with Ubuntu.
Regards,
Michael Devenish
On
On 18/05/11 19:02, Michael Devenish wrote:
I'd like to see the 100,000 volunteers for the Race Online 2012
campaign encouraged to download and try Ubuntu so they are at least
aware of it and can explain if anyone asks them. They'd also need to
be told where to go for tutorials and assistance
On 18/05/11 14:48, Matthew Daubney wrote:
On 18 May 2011 13:05, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net
mailto:zl...@zleap.net wrote:
So what can we do about this, I am currently helping at a youth music
project that has now got 4 / 5 ubuntu computers up and running, I am
struggling to
On 18/05/11 19:22, Alan Bell wrote:
On 18/05/11 19:02, Michael Devenish wrote:
I'd like to see the 100,000 volunteers for the Race Online 2012
campaign encouraged to download and try Ubuntu so they are at least
aware of it and can explain if anyone asks them. They'd also need to
be told where
On 18 May 2011 19:22, Alan Bell alanb...@ubuntu.com wrote:
I'd like to see us being a race online partner organisation and actually
being some of those 100,000 volunteers. http://raceonline2012.org I can't
see why we shouldn't, what do you think?
If we're organised and disciplined, totally we
On 18/05/11 19:37, Rob Beard wrote:
On 18/05/11 14:48, Matthew Daubney wrote:
On 18 May 2011 13:05, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net
mailto:zl...@zleap.net wrote:
So what can we do about this, I am currently helping at a youth music
project that has now got 4 / 5 ubuntu computers up
On 18/05/11 19:54, Alan Pope wrote:
On 18 May 2011 19:22, Alan Bell alanb...@ubuntu.com wrote:
I'd like to see us being a race online partner organisation and actually
being some of those 100,000 volunteers. http://raceonline2012.org I can't
see why we shouldn't, what do you think?
If
On 18 May 2011 21:19, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote:
do we sign up individually or sign up as the south west loco team and
have the loco team website as a holding place for people who can help
I'd wait for guidance from Alan Bell as he's the point of contact for
the LoCo. Probably best to
I seem to have stirred up quite a bit of debate with this.
Michael Devenish makes a good suggestion that the Race Online volunteers
need to get a bit of education with Ubuntu. It is an achievement to get
it on the menu as an option but it is clear that the Microsoft spin
doctors have had a
On 18/05/11 21:46, Martin Houston wrote:
I seem to have stirred up quite a bit of debate with this.
Michael Devenish makes a good suggestion that the Race Online volunteers
need to get a bit of education with Ubuntu. It is an achievement to get
it on the menu as an option but it is clear
On 18/05/11 21:23, Alan Pope wrote:
On 18 May 2011 21:19, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote:
do we sign up individually or sign up as the south west loco team and
have the loco team website as a holding place for people who can help
I'd wait for guidance from Alan Bell as he's the point of
Martin Houston wrote:
It would have been nice to have little snippets like Linux's 20 year
history and the fact it runs on 95% of all super computers. The page
is very biased to say the least.
Not that either of those matter since we're talking about today and
cheap computers, but Windows
It was actually because I approved of the sheer common sense of giving
people with no previous exposure to computers Linux instead of Windows
that I signed up to be Race Online 2012 partner in the first place.
That is why the sudden realisation that Microsoft was involved after all
came as
On 18/05/11 21:19, Paul Sutton wrote:
Ok if people have a login to launchpad they can edit the loco team page
which thus far has had me doing this,
huh? where?
do we sign up individually or sign up as the south west loco team and
have the loco team website as a holding place for people who
On 18/05/11 22:46, Avi wrote:
Martin Houston wrote:
It would have been nice to have little snippets like Linux's 20 year
history and the fact it runs on 95% of all super computers. The page
is very biased to say the least.
Not that either of those matter since we're talking about today
alan c wrote:
I know that Linux is often used to denote the operating system in
addition to being the name of the kernel. I regard Linux as being the
kernel, and Stallman started GNU, what he stated was to be a free OS,
in 1983.
Well, it's probably possible to argue heritage all the way
Just call it Ubuntu, problem solved.
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The under £100 cheap PCs for the disadvantaged go on sale today.
See
http://www.ecycleonline.co.uk/choose-your-computer---from-9200-8-c.asp
http://www.ecycleonline.co.uk/choose-your-computer---from-9200-8-c.asp
Ubuntu 10.10 is there as a solid and no strings attached choice.
But for only £3
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