Re: [ubuntu-uk] Race Online 2012 - lets give EVERYONE buying a second user PC a chance to try Linux.

2011-06-04 Thread Rob Beard
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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Race Online 2012 - lets give EVERYONE buying, a second user PC a chance to try Linux.

2011-05-26 Thread Martin Houston
Yes gaz has hit it on the head. We need government to back peoples right to share their broadband connection with their neighbours. It is against the small print of most broadband contracts I believe. However if a whole side of a street could share one ADSL line via wireless or ethernet

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Race Online 2012 - lets give EVERYONE buying a second user PC a chance to try Linux.

2011-05-25 Thread gazz
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 -- alan

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Race Online 2012 - lets give EVERYONE buying a second user PC a chance to try Linux.

2011-05-23 Thread Avi Greenbury
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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Race Online 2012 - lets give EVERYONE buying a second user PC a chance to try Linux.

2011-05-23 Thread Paul Sutton
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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Race Online 2012 - lets give EVERYONE buying a second user PC a chance to try Linux.

2011-05-23 Thread alan c
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 -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] Race Online 2012 - lets give EVERYONE buying a second user PC a chance to try Linux.

2011-05-22 Thread Martin Houston
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