On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 07:45 +0000, Sean Miller wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Alan Bell > <alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com> wrote: > > to offer a contrary view I would always go for the latest released > > version fully updated. The customer is likely to update it anyway, or > > think they are not getting the newest and shinyest operating system > > otherwise. LTS is arguably better for servers or corporate desktop > > rollouts (if you don't have landscape or any management tools) but for > > sellability to geeks and others go for new and shiny. If you can launch > > on April 23rd with Jauny pre-installed you might get a burst of > > interest. (was thinking of doing that myself) > > I completely agree with that... as you say, the customer is likely to > upgrade anyway and that has the potential to break the thing... better > to install the latest release, fully test it to ensure it works and > then you know that they have 6 months of relatively "plain sailing" at > least... we had that thread a week or two ago with Rowan and his > networking which was caused by a supplier having to install > non-standard drivers due to something (the kernel version?) in 8.04... > that's after less than 12 months... > > 8.04 will cease to be supported (desktop) in April 2011, 9.04 will > cease to be supported in October 2010... we're getting to the point > here where there isn't actually a great deal of difference. > > Sean > Looking at the hardware, you're looking at about 110-130 plus 20 for national delivery plus a bit for you so lets say 180 a unit-ish.
As for everything else Mr Pope is correct get onto Canonical for permission to use the ubuntu branding if nothing else. If I recall you have to send a sample machine in to canonical but again chase that up with them after all they know. -- Seek That Thy Might Know http://www.davmor2.co.uk
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