Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotted In The Wild

2012-04-30 Thread John Oliver
On 30/04/12 22:07, Barry Drake wrote: On 30/04/12 22:04, Barry Titterton wrote: My employer's IT department confirmed that they have no plans to move away from a Windows based installation. Shame. Be patient. Persuade them in a roundabout way that won't involve you, that they MUST upgrade to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotted In The Wild

2012-04-30 Thread Barry Drake
On 30/04/12 22:04, Barry Titterton wrote: My employer's IT department confirmed that they have no plans to move away from a Windows based installation. Shame. Be patient. Persuade them in a roundabout way that won't involve you, that they MUST upgrade to Windows 8!!! -- Barry Drake is a mem

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotted In The Wild

2012-04-30 Thread Barry Titterton
Last week, while walking through the IT department at work, I spotted a laptop running Ubuntu (Unity). For one brief, wonderful moment I thought my employers were investigating a move to a linux based system. However it turned out that the laptop belonged to an engineer from one of the software com