[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed

2011-08-08 Thread Barry Drake
Hi there . Last week at the local LUG meet, I was talking to a guy who told me about Cougar Extreme: http://www.cougar-extreme.co.uk/ who sell barebones computers. I have been talking to Patrick at Cougar, who tells me they are quite willing to supply pre-installed and to test with Linux and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed

2011-08-08 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi there .  Last week at the local LUG meet, I was talking to a guy who told me about Cougar Extreme: http://www.cougar-extreme.co.uk/ who sell barebones computers.  I have been talking to Patrick at Cougar, who tells me they are quite willing to supply pre-installed and to test with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed

2011-08-08 Thread Barry Drake
On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 12:34 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: I wonder if it would be possible for Cougar to create a page on their website advertising Ubuntu PCs? I couldn't see one when I looked, but if Cougar could do that, I'm sure it would help them lots more exposure within the Ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed

2011-08-08 Thread Sean Miller
On 8 August 2011 13:38, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: Patrick who said they would be delighted to supply pre-installed. I guess they don't want to advertise so that folk come to them and then need support with the OS. Not sure that qualifies them to be linked to, does it? The

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed

2011-08-08 Thread Sean Miller
On 8 August 2011 13:59, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: Not impressed, and I'm going to fire off an e-mail to them to tell them so. I've asked them... their attitude sounds really bad, to be honest... significantly worse than the PCWorld guy with the memory sticks that did seem a breath

[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [lugmaster] Richard Stallman in Birmingham - 6pm August 25th 2011

2011-08-08 Thread Alan Pope
FYI Begin forwarded message: *From:* Tim Williams t.m.willi...@cs.bham.ac.uk *Date:* 8 August 2011 15:28:11 GMT+01:00 *To:* UK Lugmasters lugmas...@mailman.lug.org.uk *Subject:* *[lugmaster] Richard Stallman in Birmingham - 6pm August 25th 2011* *Reply-To:* UK LUG Masters' private discussion

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [lugmaster] Richard Stallman in Birmingham - 6pm August 25th 2011

2011-08-08 Thread James Tait
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/08/11 15:29, Alan Pope wrote: [snip] *Subject:* *[lugmaster] Richard Stallman in Birmingham - 6pm August 25th 2011* [snip] Richard Stallman will be giving a talk at the University of Birmingham this month. Thank you for reminding me - RMS

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed

2011-08-08 Thread alan c
On 08/08/11 13:38, Barry Drake wrote: On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 12:34 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: I wonder if it would be possible for Cougar to create a page on their website advertising Ubuntu PCs? I couldn't see one when I looked, but if Cougar could do that, I'm sure it would help them lots

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed

2011-08-08 Thread Barry Drake
On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 17:11 +0100, alan c wrote: They might also be fearful of adverse consequences with their presumed discount for MS OS's? I don't think so. I talked this through thoroughly with pcspecialist. It was all down to a question of full support. They tried selling a range of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed

2011-08-08 Thread Barry Titterton
On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 18:13 +0100, Barry Drake wrote: They tried selling a range of equipment with Ubuntu pre-installed, and found that currently, they were not up to giving Ubuntu OS support. A manufacturer is legally obliged to give proper support, and this applies to Cougar, so I fully