Making it easy - Automatic download and install

[Andrea]

> you will have to adjust the values in the XF86Config-4/xorg.conf for
> widescreen for both drivers in any case....i think there is automation
> needed very badly...
you can just change resolution...


> i have had no 800*600 or 60hz flicker on any fresh non-widescreen
> install yet with the free nv drivers. they always work flawless if the
> monitor is detected correctly...
lucky you

> and i also cant find any bugs about this in bugzilla....(but other
ones
> that describe breakages of software that seems unrelated in the first
> spot but breaks through the binary drivers)  
im not talking about bugs... just talking about quality of the image.


> about 50 ppl in real and a number i havent counted in IRC (look for
> ogra) or on the mailing list (one of the real ppl is my mother (67)
with
> no clue of computers and 300km away from me with an imac....she
managed
> the install alone with me on the phone....big thanks to Colin for this
> beautiful installer !!)

first of all.. let me say i respect your thoughts ad im not complaining
to anything you say.. im just telling you what it seems tome, although 
im not going to carry on this discussion since im no-one in here and i
wouldnt like to be pointed at as the troll...
but:

1) as BtLUG and Italian UbuntuLinux Community [ItUC, from now on] we are
offering, for now [due to Uni if i dont find help ill be forced to stop
this service], free support to new-ubuntu users, we started a project
aimed to port ubuntu in public administrations... and voluntary
associations...

2) [follows from 1)] doing this, the biggest obstacles we found were
clerks [both voluntary and paid] saying "..mm i cant use this computer
because i cant find "my computer" icon... how can i print? is this the
print icon? mmm... yeah ok, but its 3 icons at the left were i left it
in Word..."
so plz, im very happy for you, and you should be proud of your mum...
but the Hominides, I'm talking about, are not able to use irc, not able
to use a ml, and they dont speak english, so if the OS throws and error
in english they're "lost in translation"...
..mm other than that i will thank everyone at canonical and every debian
developer

3) mind that every user i mentioned is not going to upgrade to hoary,
never ever, because "they dont know if they're using windows or
linux" ;) [they use it only bcause is free and you dont get viruses],
and they only want to be able to play solitaire, frozen bubble and use
openoffice.

with love

andrea
btlug
Communita' UbuntuLinux ITALIA

> ciao
>       oli

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