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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jonathan, please consider the request for the Hard
Drive seriously. I think it would be in the best interest of <FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3>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.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<A title=ncoetzer@halsteds.co.zw href="mailto:ncoetzer@halsteds.co.zw">Neil
Coetzer</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com
href="mailto:ubuntu-zw@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-zw</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:53
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: hi</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi Jonathan,<BR><BR>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.
<BR><BR>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 :)<BR><BR>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?<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>Neil<BR><BR>On Tue,
2008-05-06 at 09:42 +0200, jonathan wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"><PRE><FONT color=#000000>Hello all names Jonathan Hopley and I work for Logical Solutions.I have </FONT>
<FONT color=#000000>managed to persuade our company to sell some machines with open office </FONT>
<FONT color=#000000>when machine comes with no software.Hopefully will sometime will be able </FONT>
<FONT color=#000000>to convince them at some stage to sell ubuntu on clone machines.My </FONT>
<FONT color=#000000>knowledge is basic with ubuntu but whatever I learn am willing to share </FONT>
<FONT color=#000000>to help grow ubuntu in zim.Thanks to kalpesh at Yoafrica we now have a </FONT>
<FONT color=#000000>mirror for ubuntu downloads.</FONT>
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