Re: Store selling Linux computer with support
--090803020609040808070900 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Arik Baratz wrote: On Tue, Dec 4, 2007 at 10:04 AM, Maxim Veksler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://d-source.co.il are resellers of http://affordy.com which delivery hardware + software for the home marked based on Ubuntu. 1. They will support you in your first steps of connecting to the Internet by working with the ISP. 2. They sell Monthly (100NIS) / Yearly (600NIS) technical support. A home visit will cost you 250 NIS. Their support covers PC not booting, no X and other user land stuff. From the business point of view, they've sold ~100 PCs in Israel and are expending abroad. Their offer includes Ubuntu core + 3rd party software (mostly binary freeware such as Skype, games and toys). It's seems like a small PC shop (6 employees with hardware backing from d-source). On the community side, they have plans on donating hardware for ubuntu.org.il, I'll believe it when I see it happening. Hello list, Does any of you have an update on this? My brother is contemplating buying a computer now, and he came across their advert. If anyone has one of those, I'd love to get in touch and hear any comments, for better or worse. The one downside that I already discovered is that at least one of their resellers advertise using SPAM. I'm going to report it to the company and see how they handle it. Thanks in advance and take care, -- Arik = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] I recently bought a new workstation from Excellnet, Ramat HaChayal branch. They don't formally support anything, but the sales mgr (Dvir) was enough of a linux type (Ubuntu) to assist me pick the right combination of MB, processor etc. (We checked the main items on the linux HW compatibility site at the shop.) I put up openSUSE 10.3 and everything worked first shot - sound, network, video etc. The box and power supply were good quality (quiet PS). They are not cheap, but then, there are no free lunches in this world. If you are interested, I'll provide the details of my setup, privately. Daniel --090803020609040808070900 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name=dilogsys.vcf Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=dilogsys.vcf YmVnaW46dmNhcmQNCmZuOkRhbmllbCBGZWlnbGluDQpuOkZlaWdsaW47RGFuaWVsDQphZHI6 OztQT0IgMzY7U2hhdmVpIFNob21yb247RG9hciBOYTs0NDg1ODtJU1JBRUwNCmVtYWlsO2lu dGVybmV0OmRpbG9nc3lzQGludGVyLm5ldC5pbA0KdGVsO3dvcms6OTcyIDkgODYxNjIwNA0K dGVsO2ZheDo5NzIgOSA4NjIxMDUyDQp0ZWw7cGFnZXI6U2t5cGUgdXNlciBJRDogYmFiYV9k YW5ueQ0KdGVsO2hvbWU6OTcyIDkgODMyMDkzOQ0KdGVsO2NlbGw6OTI3IDUyIDM4Njk5ODYN CnZlcnNpb246Mi4xDQplbmQ6dmNhcmQNCg0K --090803020609040808070900-- = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Store selling Linux computer with support
On Tue, Dec 4, 2007 at 10:04 AM, Maxim Veksler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://d-source.co.il are resellers of http://affordy.com which delivery hardware + software for the home marked based on Ubuntu. 1. They will support you in your first steps of connecting to the Internet by working with the ISP. 2. They sell Monthly (100NIS) / Yearly (600NIS) technical support. A home visit will cost you 250 NIS. Their support covers PC not booting, no X and other user land stuff. From the business point of view, they've sold ~100 PCs in Israel and are expending abroad. Their offer includes Ubuntu core + 3rd party software (mostly binary freeware such as Skype, games and toys). It's seems like a small PC shop (6 employees with hardware backing from d-source). On the community side, they have plans on donating hardware for ubuntu.org.il, I'll believe it when I see it happening. Hello list, Does any of you have an update on this? My brother is contemplating buying a computer now, and he came across their advert. If anyone has one of those, I'd love to get in touch and hear any comments, for better or worse. The one downside that I already discovered is that at least one of their resellers advertise using SPAM. I'm going to report it to the company and see how they handle it. Thanks in advance and take care, -- Arik = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Store selling Linux computer with support
They don't mention there. I talked with them once on the phone. Actually they sell computers without OS and put Ubuntu on the pc to check that the hardware works. You should call them and talk with reuven. On Dec 3, 2007 8:25 PM, Oron Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday, 2 בDecember 2007, sara fink wrote: d-source installs ubuntu. They will help to connect to internet as well. http://www.d-source.co.il/ Can you back it up? I followed your link with the following results: - Didn't see Linux or Ubuntu mentioned anywere. - Using their search with Linux or Ubuntu returns nothing. - Just to test that search actually functions, I tried windows and vista... yes they do work (not the OS, the search ;-) - Otherwise, their website barely works (e.g: the Javascript links on the sidebar to the various categories, do not work) -- Tested on both Firefox-2.0.0.10 and Konqi-3.5.8 from Fedora-7 So? -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 Without the wind, the grass does not move. Without software, hardware is useless. -- Tao of Programming
Re: Store selling Linux computer with support
On Dec 3, 2007 8:25 PM, Oron Peled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday, 2 בDecember 2007, sara fink wrote: d-source installs ubuntu. They will help to connect to internet as well. http://www.d-source.co.il/ Can you back it up? I followed your link with the following results: - Didn't see Linux or Ubuntu mentioned anywere. - Using their search with Linux or Ubuntu returns nothing. - Just to test that search actually functions, I tried windows and vista... yes they do work (not the OS, the search ;-) - Otherwise, their website barely works (e.g: the Javascript links on the sidebar to the various categories, do not work) -- Tested on both Firefox-2.0.0.10 and Konqi-3.5.8 from Fedora-7 So? So... This thing got me curies and I went to verify some information. http://d-source.co.il are resellers of http://affordy.com which delivery hardware + software for the home marked based on Ubuntu. 1. They will support you in your first steps of connecting to the Internet by working with the ISP. 2. They sell Monthly (100NIS) / Yearly (600NIS) technical support. A home visit will cost you 250 NIS. Their support covers PC not booting, no X and other user land stuff. From the business point of view, they've sold ~100 PCs in Israel and are expending abroad. Their offer includes Ubuntu core + 3rd party software (mostly binary freeware such as Skype, games and toys). It's seems like a small PC shop (6 employees with hardware backing from d-source). On the community side, they have plans on donating hardware for ubuntu.org.il, I'll believe it when I see it happening. All in all, this seems like win-win situation for us all. Maxim. -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 Without the wind, the grass does not move. Without software, hardware is useless. -- Tao of Programming To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Cheers, Maxim Veksler Free as in Freedom - Do u GNU ?
Re: Store selling Linux computer with support
On 04/12/2007, Maxim Veksler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So... This thing got me curies and I went to verify some information. http://d-source.co.il are resellers of http://affordy.com which delivery hardware + software for the home marked based on Ubuntu. 1. They will support you in your first steps of connecting to the Internet by working with the ISP. 2. They sell Monthly (100NIS) / Yearly (600NIS) technical support. A home visit will cost you 250 NIS. Their support covers PC not booting, no X and other user land stuff. From the business point of view, they've sold ~100 PCs in Israel and are expending abroad. Their offer includes Ubuntu core + 3rd party software (mostly binary freeware such as Skype, games and toys). It's seems like a small PC shop (6 employees with hardware backing from d-source). On the community side, they have plans on donating hardware for ubuntu.org.il, I'll believe it when I see it happening. So far sounds like a great operation. I'd consider buying my next computer from them, if only to help the cause. All in all, this seems like win-win situation for us all. You mean a no-Win situation, do you ;) Thanks for the info. Cheers, --Amos = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Store selling Linux computer with support
On Sunday, 2 בDecember 2007, sara fink wrote: d-source installs ubuntu. They will help to connect to internet as well. http://www.d-source.co.il/ Can you back it up? I followed your link with the following results: - Didn't see Linux or Ubuntu mentioned anywere. - Using their search with Linux or Ubuntu returns nothing. - Just to test that search actually functions, I tried windows and vista... yes they do work (not the OS, the search ;-) - Otherwise, their website barely works (e.g: the Javascript links on the sidebar to the various categories, do not work) -- Tested on both Firefox-2.0.0.10 and Konqi-3.5.8 from Fedora-7 So? -- Oron Peled Voice/Fax: +972-4-8228492 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron ICQ UIN: 16527398 Without the wind, the grass does not move. Without software, hardware is useless. -- Tao of Programming To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Store selling Linux computer with support
d-source installs ubuntu. They will help to connect to internet as well. http://www.d-source.co.il/ On Nov 29, 2007 8:13 PM, Aviram Jenik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to buy a computer for my grandfather. I'm looking for a store that can sell me a brand new computer with Linux installed (Ubuntu preferably) and provide either paid or free support for that computer (including configuring it to connect to the Internet, configuring a new printer when needed, and fixing problems if they arise). If anyone has recommendation of such a store, let me know. If you're a store owner please contact me off list. - Aviram = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Store selling Linux computer with support
Hi, I want to buy a computer for my grandfather. I'm looking for a store that can sell me a brand new computer with Linux installed (Ubuntu preferably) and provide either paid or free support for that computer (including configuring it to connect to the Internet, configuring a new printer when needed, and fixing problems if they arise). If anyone has recommendation of such a store, let me know. If you're a store owner please contact me off list. - Aviram = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
