[ubuntu-uk] FWD: [[Hampshire] Report on Tesco Ubuntu machine]

[Chris Rowson]

> > > Not to mention selling a machine with a default user name and password
> > > already set up. That blows any idea that Ubuntu is secure right out of
> > > the water!
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Tony.
> >
> > Why on earth wouldn't the silly sods have run the install mode for OEMs option?
> >
>
> I know the OEM option works well in recent releases, but given they
> installed Dapper, is it as reliable under that version. I don't know, I've
> never used it.
>
> Perhaps they have a sensible reason for doing it this way. Perhaps... they
> don't actually give a monkeys what is installed, they just chose a Linux
> distro so they could omit windows and thus get an attractive price point.
>
> > To be honest the whole affair sounds shocking. Is this a fluke/one off
> > or are all of these esys PCs this badly configured?
> >
>
> Is it really that bad?
>
> Sounds like a typical out of the box install really.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>

I dunno Al, I'd be pretty miffed if I was a newcomer to Linux and all
I got was an out-of-range message when I tried to boot up my new PC!

Perhaps later releases will be better OOTB.

I wonder if a lot of the purchases will be by folk who intend to put a
dodgy copy of Windows on them though.

Chris