Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introduction

2006-09-22 Thread ac
David Morley wrote: > Hi my name is Dave Morley, I'm 33 and live in Wolverhampton. I am > informed that I'm not a newbie any more, so class myself as a novice > in both computing in general and using Linux. I tried just about > every combination of Linux desktop/distro I could get my hands on, bu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introduction

2006-09-22 Thread ac
David Morley wrote: >> There is a page detailing the various things you can do to help out >> ubuntu and how to get involved with each here: >> >> http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate >> >> and a more lengthy and up to date version here: >> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributeToUbuntu >> >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubunto in college, was Re: Women, LinuxWorld, Stuff

2006-09-22 Thread Nik Butler
Tony Arnold wrote: > >> should learn what is out there in industry, which is a valid point, >> but the value of open source is just as important. >> > > The problem with this argument, is that the world stays with M$ forever > Actually I was sitting there and thinking about that as well.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introduction

2006-09-22 Thread David Morley
> There is a page detailing the various things you can do to help out > ubuntu and how to get involved with each here: > > http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate > > and a more lengthy and up to date version here: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributeToUbuntu > I already reply a fair amount o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introduction

2006-09-22 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:13:59 +0100 "David Morley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi my name is Dave Morley, I'm 33 and live in Wolverhampton. I am > informed that I'm not a newbie any more, so class myself as a novice > in both computing in general and using Linux. I tried just about > every combi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubunto in college, was Re: Women, LinuxWorld, Stuff

2006-09-22 Thread Tony Arnold
Matthew, Matthew Saunders wrote: > The College I work at is quite near Carolines (Essex). We have > started embracing open source as much as we can because the money > isn't there to fund all this proprietary software. I am deploying > Linux as far as I can and I am succeeding with servers and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reluctant update in Dapper

2006-09-22 Thread Caroline Ford
On 21/09/06, Llywelyn Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmm, "white man speaks with forked tongue" me thinks. It's beyond my understanding, I'll ignore the errors and wait for it to get better! Thanks. On 21/09/06, Paul Sladen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Llywelyn Owen wrote:>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubunto in college, was Re: Women, LinuxWorld, Stuff

2006-09-22 Thread Tony Arnold
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > On 16/09/06, ana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We had a college IT teacher in the >> hacklab once, he explained that even if he wants to teach some free >> software he can't, they are locked in a contract with microsoft by which >> they can not install any other

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introduction

2006-09-22 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 12:13 +0100, David Morley wrote: > Which brings me here to this list in order to see if there is > anything I can do to further the movement of my favoured Distro. > What interests you most? Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you g