On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Piet Beukes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi 21st April 2008 > > I have drawn up a marketing pamphlet for the South(ern) Africa area which > should work well here. In SA (as well as Africa in a broader sense), a lot > of people are using older PC's with software which were borrowed! from > friends etc and these people would love to use legal software where there > are no threat of someone coming to charge you with copywrite restrictions or > worse. Free software is just out of heaven!!! > > Am sending it through - the pamphlet looks forward to the 24 th of Apr08, > but can (easily) be changed after April to reflect that the event is past. > I have sent it to the ZA-ubunu team earlier, but have not had responce as > yet. I have sent it to friends and vip's in our society who I think can get > the news out far quicklier than that I can do it. I have also sent out news > items to our local newspapers (in Afrikaans - my home language as well as in > English to a national sunday paper - sunday independant). here then the > pamphlet - send any suggestions or ideas to me for future use > > Rusty > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ps - I have been using Kubuntu for about a year now (home and business) - > previously tried Mandrake (-driva) as well as Suse, but like Ubuntu better. > > ---------------------------------- > > Launching UBUNTU 8.04 > > Pamphlet for Africa r1a > > UBUNTU 8.04 IS COMING > > UBUNTU 8.04 is coming _*to your city*_ > > UBUNTU 8.04 is flying _*to your workplace, your school, your village*_ > > UBUNTU 8.04 is coming _*to YOU!*_ > > > UBUNTU 8.04, called Hardy Heron, has been released by Mark Shuttleworth > and his computer company, Canonical. > > UBUNTU 8.04 is a stable computer environment in Linux, for everyday use at > work, at home and school, useful also for networking with the Internet. > > It is available in a large number of languages, including Punjabi, > Swedish, Arabic, Xhosa and Afrikaans. > > > UBUNTU 8.04, launched at the end of April 2008, is a LTR or Long Term > Release project of the Ubuntu series. The Ubuntu project as part of the > bigger Linux family, has been created by Mark Shuttleworth and his team in > 2004 and has seen various releases, culminating in the current sturdy 8.04 > long term release of Hardy Heron. Linux uses OSC or Open Source Code and is > part of the Open Source environment. Since 2007 Linux has become the > computing system of choice for the French parlement. Even NASA uses open > source code. After intensive study the South African government decided in > 2006 to make open source software of which Ubuntu is part, its preferencial > software. Currently Ubuntu is even available as basic operating system on > some Dell computers and laptops. > > > But the best news of all is that Ubuntu 8.04 is totally FREE OF CHARGE. > > > It is also LEGAL SOFTWARE. No longer do you have to worry about someone > accousing you that you have illegal software on your computer or network or > on your workstations. It is all legal, even if it is free of any costs. > > > The UBUNTU 8.04 launch takes place worldwide on 24 April with launch > parties in Europe, the Americas, India, Australia and the Far East. > > Everyone with Internet access and with some bandwidth available, can > download UBUNTU 8.04 from the Ubuntu website, which can easily be found by > for instance googling it. For everybody else, there are CDs available which > can be ordered free of charge from Canonical (detail on the Ubuntu website) > or from various people in Southern Africa. For people in a hurry with little > or no internet access, it can also be ordered from specific suppliers in SA > at a small cost (between R60 to R250 depending on the supplier). > > > *UBUNTU 8.04* is available in its origional form, or as *KUBUNTU* in the > KDE format or as *EDUBUNTU* for schools and as *XUBUNTU* for older computers > in a very basic format. > > > *GRAB IT ON THE GO!* > > > >
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