Hi <br>An idea for a marketing pamphlet for HardyH to use during April
2008 (- in a South/ern African context where the fact that Ubuntu is
also legal software is important for many people who cannot afford the
legal software of MS) but who do have access to a computer or own a
lower end computer). The Shuttleworth name also rings a bell for many
in an African context and could thus be used as handy advertising as
done here.<br>
<br>After April the wording can be changed slightly to reflect that
Hardy H is already available and can be grabbed on the go. Any ideas
welcome.<br>Greetings (sorry if there are any double posting :-)<br>Rusty<br><a href="mailto:rustypc1@gmail.com" target="_blank">rustypc1@gmail.com</a><br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal;"><a name="11961bbe71df747f_11960beef10c396b_DDE_LINK"></a>
<font face="Times, Times New Roman">Launching UBUNTU 8.04 </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="right"><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">Pamphlet
for Africa r1b</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><font style="font-size: 16pt;" size="4">UBUNTU
8.04 IS COMING</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> UBUNTU 8.04 is coming <u><b>to your
city</b></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> UBUNTU 8.04 is flying <u><b>to your
workplace, your school, your village</b></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> UBUNTU 8.04 is coming <u><b>to YOU!</b></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">UBUNTU 8.04, called Hardy Heron, has
been released by Mark Shuttleworth and his computer company,
Canonical.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">UBUNTU 8.04 is a stable computer
environment in Linux, for everyday use at work, at home and school,
useful also for networking with the Internet.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">It is available in a large number of
languages, including Punjabi, Swedish, Arabic, Xhosa and Afrikaans.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">UBUNTU 8.04, launched at the end of
April 2008, is a LTR or Long Term Release project of the Ubuntu
series. The Ubuntu project as part of the bigger Linux family, has
been created by Mark Shuttleworth and his team in 2004 and has seen
various releases, culminating in the current sturdy 8.04 long term
release of Hardy Heron. Linux uses OSC or Open Source Code and is
part of the Open Source environment. Since 2007 Linux has become the
computing system of choice for the French parlement. Even NASA uses
open source code. After intensive study the South African
government decided in 2006 to make open source software of which
Ubuntu is part, its preferencial software. Currently Ubuntu is even
available as basic operating system on some Dell computers and
laptops.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">But the best news of all is that Ubuntu
8.04 is totally FREE OF CHARGE.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">It is also LEGAL SOFTWARE. No longer
do you have to worry about someone accousing you that you have
illegal software on your computer or network or on your workstations.
It is all legal, even if it is free of any costs.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">The UBUNTU 8.04 launch takes place
worldwide on 24 April with launch parties in Europe, the Americas,
India, Australia and the Far East.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Everyone with Internet access and with
some bandwidth available, can download UBUNTU 8.04 from the Ubuntu
website, which can easily be found by for instance googling it. For
everybody else, there are CDs available which can be ordered free of
charge from Canonical (detail on the Ubuntu website) or from various
people in Southern Africa. For people in a hurry with little or no
internet access, it can also be ordered from specific suppliers in SA
at a small cost (between R60 to R250 depending on the supplier).</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>UBUNTU 8.04</b> is available in its
origional form, or as <b>KUBUNTU</b> in the KDE format or as <b>EDUBUNTU</b>
for schools and as <b>XBUNTU</b> for older computers in a very basic
format.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>GRAB IT ON THE GO!</b></p></div>