Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gaming on Ubuntu

2012-07-09 Thread Andres Muniz
- Mensaje original - > The best way to get a linux gaming page could be a updated ebook style > format-much like the introduction to linux (in pdf format from ages ago) > that explains everything clearly for newcomers. A book style approach (in > digital format) could include documentation

Re: [ubuntu-uk] http://ubuntuadverts.org/

2012-07-09 Thread Phill Whiteside
Okies, if someone would contact the DNS owner, I can set up a Ubuntu-12.04 server with LAMP. To make life actually capable for you guys I'll even install ssh (Do NOT get me started as to why server edition does not have ssh as I install via VM on a headless server that lives in a server farm!!!).

Re: [ubuntu-uk] http://ubuntuadverts.org/

2012-07-09 Thread Barry Drake
On 09/07/12 22:56, Phill Whiteside wrote: Long time no chat! There are some people from lubuntu who would most likely be interested in getting this back up & running for all of the flavours. Hi . For what it's worth, Cassidy James has dropped out of the project, and I'm not sure if ther

Re: [ubuntu-uk] http://ubuntuadverts.org/

2012-07-09 Thread Alan Pope
On 09/07/12 22:56, Phill Whiteside wrote: long time no chat! There are some people from lubuntu who would most likely be interested in getting this back up & running for all of the flavours. Why? Given the team seems to be dead, no meetings, no other activity? Do you want to poke Jono over t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] http://ubuntuadverts.org/

2012-07-09 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi alan, long time no chat! There are some people from lubuntu who would most likely be interested in getting this back up & running for all of the flavours. Do you want to poke Jono over this, or should i? Regards, Phill. P.S. the 1st beta of speech control is finally nearing completion; the u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] http://ubuntuadverts.org/

2012-07-09 Thread Alan Pope
On 09/07/12 22:15, Barry Drake wrote: Hmm Just clicked on the link in my tagline (http://ubuntuadverts.org/) and we don't exist any more! Shame. Seems no meetings for a year and it looks like the owner left to the Elementary OS project. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuAdverts/Meetings

Re: [ubuntu-uk] http://ubuntuadverts.org/

2012-07-09 Thread Phill Whiteside
It could be part of the DNS re-setting. Should http://ubuntuadverts.org/ actually need server space to 'live' on, they are more than welcome to have a virtual machine in your control under the theSII server[1] we have the 16G model and already mirror the lubuntu isos [2], which is the team I am QA

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gaming on Ubuntu

2012-07-09 Thread Anton Kanishchev
The best way to get a linux gaming page could be a updated ebook style format-much like the introduction to linux (in pdf format from ages ago) that explains everything clearly for newcomers. A book style approach (in digital format) could include documentation on games, sources (ppas) of games for

[ubuntu-uk] http://ubuntuadverts.org/

2012-07-09 Thread Barry Drake
Hmm Just clicked on the link in my tagline (http://ubuntuadverts.org/) and we don't exist any more! Shame. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gaming on Ubuntu

2012-07-09 Thread Barry Drake
On 09/07/12 20:53, alan c wrote: I think you have an excellent point. I notice though, that although the more technical Windows user I meet does now, often, actually know of the existence of Ubuntu, it is still most unlikely that the general users of Windows will even have heard about it. I wou

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gaming on Ubuntu

2012-07-09 Thread alan c
On 09/07/12 20:36, Daniel Case wrote: Hey guys, If you haven't heard, Windows 8 drops in October (around the release of 12.10) and a lot of speculation says people will be looking for alternate operating systems, Windows 8 gets rid of a lot and it is another Windows Vista as it were, whereas Uni

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Museum outing

2012-07-09 Thread Alan Bell
On 07/07/12 21:25, Bruno Girin wrote: On 20/06/12 23:43, Bruno Girin wrote: Hi all, Anybody fancy a geeky museum outing one weekend to go see the Codebreaker exhibition at the Science Museum? http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/turing.aspx Right, so would Saturday 28th be a

[ubuntu-uk] Gaming on Ubuntu

2012-07-09 Thread Daniel Case
Hey guys, If you haven't heard, Windows 8 drops in October (around the release of 12.10) and a lot of speculation says people will be looking for alternate operating systems, Windows 8 gets rid of a lot and it is another Windows Vista as it were, whereas Unity has become a pleasure to use. So I th