Dear James, Hi Once again thanks for the link
and also for opening up the discussion to Ubuntu and education. In fact i have just emerged from a Computer Class - where we providing young children of our community (a rural mountain community) a chance to learn and use a computer. We are using 2 Ubuntu machines and one OLPC - the olpc is justb a familiarisation exercise while they get on with major learning on the two old laptops. For us long term quality is very important - and while none of the models (samsung / Asus) provided pre loaded ubuntu atleast they give us DOS and for a smaller price. Then we go around installing Ubuntu . It the last year i have helped 4 people by laptops - an since people depended on me to ensure a good buy the cost charged was to have their laptops converted to Ubuntu. 3 of these 4 users are first time novices so they start directly on Ubuntu - no wincedows shindows. @ Simmtronics - i phoned them shortly after your mail and got a rude reply that the number provided on their website is not for sales enquiiries and i should phone some other number, The woman on line was quite rude , however am giving it one more go by maiing them. Lets see what happens, will let you know regards ram On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:07 AM, James Sebastian <[email protected] > wrote: > Dear Ram, > > Thanks for quick reply. > > See this news item as well. > > http://www.thinkdigit.com/Laptops-PCs/Simmtronics-and-VIA-team-up-to-offer_5977.html > > No harm in checking it out if you are in one of the cities. > As some one with 12 years of IT experience and now trying open source way > to make a living, I am keen to see Ubuntu succeed and to see what are the > possible options here for lay men (apart from very geek ones). I got few > friends across India willing to move to Ubuntu, but none of them are geeky > in nature, but just uses a PC for day to day life. But I do see most of them > struggles if wireless or wire network or something similar does work out of > the box. > > So since I like open source to succeed I like these kind of offers to > succeed. So I would appreciate if you can visit one of these stores and > post feelers. I may try to visit one of the stores next time I am in delhi > as well. >
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