hi

[Neil Coetzer]

Haha. Thanks Ganyani.

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 14:04 +0200, Ganyani Khosa WebMail wrote:

>  
> 
> Thanks Neil for your comments. See why we want you to Lead the Team!!
> Swift to respond, brilliant ideas, convincing suggestions. Wish I
> could rig the vote.
>  
> Jonathan, please consider the request for the Hard Drive seriously. I
> think it would be in the best interest of Logical Solutions to
> consider helping  in these early stages of this project which I see
> grow very fast in the next few months. Whoever embraces this concept
> we are building (not trying to build) stands to win in the true
> win-win spirit.
>         ----- Original Message ----- 
>         From: Neil Coetzer 
>         To: ubuntu-zw 
>         Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:53 PM
>         Subject: Re: hi
>         
>         
>         
>         Hi Jonathan,
>         
>         Thanks for the introduction. That is definitely good news! As
>         a company, Halsteds for one would be very interested in
>         pre-loaded Ubuntu machines, although I'm pushing more for
>         brandname machines and trying to steer away from clones. One
>         of the long-term plans of Ubuntu Zim is to establish a list of
>         local Ubuntu-friendly hardware suppliers. 
>         
>         One of the biggest issues non-technical users face when
>         switching to any Linux distro, is hardware drivers. What we
>         would be aiming for eventually is hardware suppliers who can
>         do all the necessary homework, and tell a client straight away
>         that the machine is 100% Linux/Ubuntu compatible. For example,
>         when looking at wireless adapters, it is currently up to the
>         client to determine if Linux drivers are available, which in
>         most cases they don't do. They then get the adapter and
>         struggle to get it working. Or they buy a new PC and suddenly
>         discover that their graphics adapter doesn't handle desktop
>         effects. If in the long run, suppliers were willing to do all
>         the background checks to ensure that hardware is compatible,
>         I'm sure Ubuntu Zim would be happy to endorse them (hence a
>         win-win situation). Obviously at this point there are
>         relatively few people who would take Linux over Windoze,
>         simply because they don't know enough about it, but that's one
>         of the things we're hoping to change :)
>         
>         As you might have gathered from the discussions on this list,
>         we're still looking for a minimum of a 500Gb IDE hard drive
>         for the repo mirror. I have spoken to Virtual Computers and
>         they would consider "chipping in" if other suppliers could
>         also help out. Would there be any hope of assistance from
>         Logical Solutions?
>         
>         Cheers,
>         Neil
>         
>         On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 09:42 +0200, jonathan wrote: 
>         
>         > Hello all names Jonathan Hopley and I work for Logical Solutions.I have 
>         > managed to persuade our company to sell some machines with open office 
>         > when machine comes with no software.Hopefully will sometime will be able 
>         > to convince them at some stage to sell ubuntu on clone machines.My 
>         > knowledge is basic with ubuntu but whatever I learn am willing to share 
>         > to help grow ubuntu in zim.Thanks to kalpesh at Yoafrica we now have a 
>         > mirror for ubuntu downloads.
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