<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Please don’t get to excited about the whole Ubuntu Tesco thing, it is on their website, but not in the store where they make the most sales on pcs, <o:p></o:p> I have checked every Tesco in Tayside and I cant even find epcs, plus it is epcs that have taken the bold step not Tesco, asda sell epcs as well, <o:p></o:p> someone should contact epcs and see what we can do to help them get into places, perhaps people on this list who sell pcs could sell branded pcs with Ubuntu on it?<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Also I think there was some black text scrolling on 6.06 just a little where it now just says “Starting up….”<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Reards,<o:p></o:p> Daniel<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: ubuntu-uk-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Sean Miller Sent: 29 October 2007 08:30 To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">British Ubuntu Talk</st1:PersonName> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu TV Advert<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> I only saw the short version of the BBC Click piece, at 6.30am on a Sunday morning or whenever on News 24 but I wasn't actually that impressed with it... it was, I recall thinking at the time, inaccurate in many regards... it made a big thing of Open Source software being free as in beer, which we know is not technically the case, and also video of black screens with text scrolling vertically as each module loads with a comment from the producer about how nostalgic this is...  I don't think any version of Ubuntu I've ever installed (and I've ran every version so far) defaulted to black screens with text scrolling, instead having the welcoming Ubuntu splash page and then a login box.  I understand that your average "man in the street" may not be able to grasp the concept of freedom vs. zero cost early on a Sunday morning but I would have thought it better to simply not mention it at all rather than state something that is actually wrong.   The programme also, if I remember right, gave that age-old impression that folks using Linux are generally geeks and to use same one needs to have some technical know-how.  This is surely a message we should be trying to refute rather than encourage the media to re-enforce it. I think it is the lack of Ubuntu boxes in the shops that is the major obstacle... whilst the OS is primarily something that the user has to install it will remain in the "geek/techie" category in most peoples' minds.  But with Tesco now selling a Linux box (what was it, Ł138?) surely we should be encouraging them to start putting them on display in store... when it comes to promotion, to use Tesco's own phrase, "Every Little Helps" and surely it would be a great opportunity for Tesco to show that they're "daring to be different", offering customers a "completely new computer experience"... perhaps stamp "Tesco Value" on the box, and offer a Ubuntu PC and TFT monitor for Ł199.99... or Ł219.99 with wireless card. Perhaps we could actually tailor a version of Ubuntu (as have the "Ubuntu Studio" folks for music) specifically for the Tesco market, doing things that nobody could dream of getting for so little from Microsoft... what does your average Tesco person want from a computer?  We have the basics - Openoffice, Firefox, Pidgin, Thunderbird/Evolution, GIMP, Skype perhaps, a CD/DVD burner of some sort, photo software of some sort... What about MythTV or similar?  Bundle in a TV card and promote this PC as one where you can pause live TV, record programmes and then burn to DVD... everything you'd get in a Ł120 "hard drive recorder" box thrown in virtually free... Imagine it... "Tesco, the store that gives you options..." - millions start flooding into Tesco to look at Windows vs. Linux... they see the rich multimedia content streaming on that shelf, they see great video demos on the screen and they see a guided tour of how you can do really exciting things (similar to what PC World do with Microsoft's creations)... Tesco sells out of Linux PCs within 3 days and it's all over the BBC News... "Tesco have been forced to order another 1 million Linux PCs after they disappeared off the shelves.   PC World and Currys executives have meanwhile called emergency meetings with their buyers to find out why Linux had not been promoted in this way in their stores, as Q4 profits at both chains looked set to be significantly down on this time last year" Impossible?  Not at all... Tesco already have Linux PCs available on their website so surely it's at least worth a go?  A joint promotion between Tesco and Ubuntu must be mutually beneficial... "Tesco - the store that dares to think outside the (Microsoft) box" ;-) Sean<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>