Hi !
I live on Reunion island, French territory in the Indian Ocean. It is quite
a rich place, with huge population ane energy and waste and land management
to come. And we do not know how to deal with our not so old PC. I work for
the local authorities in the ICT directorate. We are in favour of open
source software, so
BRAVO !
For the idea. And a question : who is installing the linux suite on the
computers, and at what cost ?
Thanks in advance
Jeff RIVIERE
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De: Phil Shapiro [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: mardi 25 octobre 2005 16:02
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Objet: [DDN] ubuntu linux computers enter the marketplace
hi everyone -
2 weeks ago i had a very nice visit with the manager of pcretro.com, a
company that sells refurbished computers over the web and via 3 stores
in the washington dc-area. i chatted with him about installing ubuntu
linux on some of the computers his company sells.
he listened carefully, asked excellent questions and was very open to
the idea. today you'll see a nice dell pentium 3 computer with ubuntu
linux on pcretro.com web site. this computer sells for $99, with
keyboard and mouse, but without the monitor. here in the united states
vga monitors are pretty much free if you ask around for them. (so many
people are upgrading to lcd monitors.)
ubuntu comes with openoffice.org and firefox web browser. this
computer comes with a floppy drive, so students could take their word
processing to school to have it printed.
this computer would work well as an extra computer in a household --
or as a person's first computer if they need a word processor and to
surf the web.
the small form factor of this dell means that you could set up 3 of
these on folding banquet table. with a $15/month verizon (or
southwestern bell) dsl account, you can have all three computers
online at the same time.
yes, the web surfing would not be totally fast, but it would be 5 to 10
times faster than dial-up. the small form factor means that you could also
store one of these computers in a closet, and bring it online when other
computers in a household are out for repair.
with microsoft vista's high processor requirements, i'm expecting
some very nice pentium 4 computers (1 to 2 gigahertz) will be
entering the refurbishing stream in the next year or two. it will
be sweet if those computers would also sell in the $100 to $150
range -- with ubuntu linux -- from pcretro.com.
- phil
further information about ubuntu linux can be found at
http://www.ubuntulinux.com/
ubuntu linux will always be free. every 6 months a newer, improved version
of this operating system comes out.
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