On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 09:20 +0100, Alan Bell wrote: > On 15/05/11 23:16, Martin Houston wrote: > > If I may make a suggestion? > > > > I haven't used the Pcspecialist notebooks mentioned by Richard Smith > > so cant comment on these particular choices, nice though it is to see > > 'No Operating system' as a money saving choice :) > > > > However if we do indeed find that machines offered by vendors like > > this who give the user the CHOICE of paying extra for Windows, and the > > machine is well behaved with Ubuntu such that it and an Ubuntu install > > CD could be given to a novice to go away and install, then we should > > reward such vendors by trying to get the message that we like their > > product out in as much online and print media as we can manage. > > > > That 'free pubicity' would encourage other manufacturers to do the > > same and we all get more choice of being able to not buy a crappy OS > > we do not want and won't be using. > > > > -- > > *Deluxe Technology Ltd* > > /Linux Consultant/ > > mhous...@deluxe-tech.co.uk <mailto:mhous...@deluxe-tech.co.uk> > > http://www.deluxe-tech.co.uk > > Mob: 07970 850961 > I did some time back put up the site http://nakedcomputers.org which was > intended to promote the selling of blank computers (so not having to > advocate any particular operating system - just advocating unbundling > and choice) I was thinking on the ubuntu-uk.org site we could have a > list of vendors supplying blank or Ubuntu pre-installed computers to the > UK market (with correct plugs and keyboard layouts obviously). Sound > like a plan?
It definitely sounds like a plan! And maybe users who buy any of them could add a couple of words on how well they work with Ubuntu. Cheers, Bruno -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
