[ubuntu-uk] FW: Dell & Ubuntu - gradually looking more hopeful

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Pascoe" <softy.lofty.ilp at btinternet.com>
To: "British Ubuntu Talk" <ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 8:32 PM
Subject: [ubuntu-uk] FW: Dell & Ubuntu - gradually looking more hopeful


> Hi Mike
>
> This came around on the Accessability Lists today:
>
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> Hi all
> Tribe 2, a milestone release of Ubuntu Gutsy, has been released. With
> this release comes a couple of goodies for us, the most important being
> eSpeak and PortAudio v19. ESpeak is now built against PortAudio v19, so
> this should mean simultaneous speech and audio playback while using
> eSpeak under GNOME with Orca.
>
> With enough testing, this should see eSpeak shipped for the final gutsy
> release using PortAudio v19.
>
> the other bit of interesting news, is relating to FireFox 3 Alpha
> packages, now available in Universe. To install it, just enable the
> universe repository, and install the firefox-granparadiso package.
>
> Enjoy.--
>
> Luke Yelavich
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Pascoe [mailto:softy.lofty.ilp at btinternet.com]
> Sent: 28 June 2007 10:21
> To: British Ubuntu Talk
> Subject: RE: [ubuntu-uk] Dell & Ubuntu - gradually looking more hopeful
>
>
> I wonder if one of the UK resellers could do it off their own back?
>
> This would also allow consumer as well as business products to be
> pre-installed with whatever flavour of OS you wanted, including dual
> booters.
>
> Mind you, I can see quite a few problems doing this - oh well, nice idea
> whilst it lasted.
>
> E
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-uk-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-uk-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Andrew Gee
> Sent: 28 June 2007 09:16
> To: British Ubuntu Talk
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell & Ubuntu - gradually looking more hopeful
>
>
> On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 08:52 +0100, luxxius wrote:
>> Perhaps we could place orders and fund someone to go over and bring some
>> back?  Any volunteers?  ;-)
>
> Probably will be problems with the power adaptors being made for the US
> though :-)
> --
> Andrew Gee
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