On Feb 18, 2008 9:04 AM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 00:02 +, James Grabham wrote:
WOW
I REALLY WANT ONE!!!
Have you read the specification of that thing?
300MHz CPU.
Yeah, thats what Arch is for!
The reason I never got an eee was the
The reason I never got an eee was the ridiculous price - £220!!??
It's clearly not that ridiculous or they wouldn't have flown off the
shelves in the vast numbers that they have.
£220 for a laptop which doesnt have a real keyboard, has a tiny
screen, and is generally
LeeGroups wrote:
The reason I never got an eee was the ridiculous price - £220!!??
It's clearly not that ridiculous or they wouldn't have flown off the
shelves in the vast numbers that they have.
£220 for a laptop which doesnt have a real keyboard, has a tiny
screen,
John Levin wrote:
Anyone have any idea what distro
it will be running?
John
According to The Inquirer (link:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/20/elonex-100-laptop-specs-leaked)
it's going to be running Debian.
At first I thought it might be Arm based since Debian
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 00:02 +, James Grabham wrote:
WOW
I REALLY WANT ONE!!!
Have you read the specification of that thing?
300MHz CPU.
The reason I never got an eee was the ridiculous price - £220!!??
It's clearly not that ridiculous or they wouldn't have flown off the
shelves in
On 18 Feb 2008, at 12:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...of course, what we're talking here is OS-X, an OS that is
completely
different... and, imho, very hard to use compared to the other two.
Having used all three systems, I'm amazed at this remark. An OS is an
OS. How different can
I'm not sure that argument about games is going to be relevant for
much longer. Developers seem to be prepared to push out buggy rubbish
(Bioshock, Shadow of Chernobyl, LOTR to name a few) which they never
fix (I'm still waiting on patches for all of the above months and
months after release) and
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:31:37AM +, Daniel Lamb wrote:
No but seriously how can anyone have anything again linux? I really
struggle with that.
The number one killer-app that I find stops people moving to Linux is games.
Almost everything else can be replaced.
MS Office to Open Office or
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 12:54 +, Gavin Ford wrote:
The number one killer-app that I find stops people moving to Linux is games.
Maybe some people, but not all. My wife, niece and brother all use Linux
on their main computer. None of them are interested in games. They all
use the pretty
** Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-18 13:37]:
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 12:54 +, Gavin Ford wrote:
The number one killer-app that I find stops people moving to Linux is games.
Maybe some people, but not all. My wife, niece and brother all use Linux
on their main computer. None of them
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 13:33 +, Alan Pope wrote:
I know a few people who dual boot Windows and Linux. Only using Windows
for gaming. Seems ideal.
I for one am on of these people - a victim of WoW. I have a perfectly
legal and legit copy of Vista, just because i play games in what little
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 13:54 +, Michael Holloway wrote:
I have managed to get most (some?) of the games i have to run in Linux
under Wine, though i must admit i have never tried Cedega.
You can compile cedega from source FYI.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Cedega although I have never
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:54:01 +
Michael Holloway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I for one am on of these people - a victim of WoW. I have a perfectly
legal and legit copy of Vista, just because i play games in what
little spare time i have. All of the rest of the time
(working/surfing/time
Gavin Ford wrote:
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:31:37AM +, Daniel Lamb wrote:
No but seriously how can anyone have anything again linux? I really
struggle with that.
The number one killer-app that I find stops people moving to Linux is games.
I have two elderly friends who use linux (kde)
Just found this article:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article3374812.ece
the British company Elonex is launching the country’s first sub £100
computer later this month and hopes to be making 200,000 of them by the
summer.
So how can Elonex make a
John Levin wrote:
Just found this article:
the British company Elonex is launching the country’s first sub £100
computer later this month and hopes to be making 200,000 of them by the
summer.
snip
So, anyone going to the Education Show? Anyone have any idea what distro
it will be running?
WOW
I REALLY WANT ONE!!!
The reason I never got an eee was the ridiculous price - £220!!??
I will start saving ASAP
(Being 15, money is always scarce)
--
ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Did anyone see the comment?
I was pleased with this development until I read Linux
Mike, Runcorn, United Kingdom
I say we beat him until he changes his ways.
No but seriously how can anyone have anything again linux? I really
struggle with that.
Regards,
Daniel
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 00:02
I encounter such attitudes all the time, especially among old school
businessmen. It usually changes once I boot up an Ubuntu live CD for
them, but I often have to expend much dialogue in coercing them to even
take a look.
Tom
Daniel Lamb wrote:
Did anyone see the comment?
I was pleased
Daniel Lamb wrote:
No but seriously how can anyone have anything again linux? I really
struggle with that.
Hmm. I've been using Linux since Yggdrassil was the new kid on the
block and I could
get an SLS subscription on 3.5 floppies. And I definitely have things
against Linux. Take
off the
On 2/18/08, James Mansion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The biggest problem with schools IT is training - not just for the
teachers but also for
the external support staff that have to help out. We gave serious
consideration to trying to
Well, as I see it there are three major operating systems on
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