Hey Jojo,<br>Thanks for joining!!<br><br>Guys, Jonathan is a very good friend of mine.. i worked with jonathan for 3 years<br>at logical solutions..and have seen his abilities... in my opinion he's the perfect guy to help out with the tech support/mailing list support/general end use assistance..<br>
he's talented in loading drivers for hardware, troubleshooting issues etc...he's been doing that for years.... so he can be a great help!<br><br>unfortunately i wouldnt count on logical solutions helping out too much with the repo... i know from my own experiences that their not really interested in the "community building" ideas. So dont count on them helping too much.... their not the right people for this project.<br>
<br>In terms of logical solutions selling pc's with preloaded ubuntu.. well.. i did try and push for this when i was managing their workshop... unfortunately to say, logical solutions are just in it for the $$.... :)<br>
<br>We did try and push that all oem machines be loaded with open office as well,<br>realistically however only a few clients ever appreciated this... the rest all fell back to <br>pirated copies of ms office...when they found that couldnt use open office properly<br>
(typical customer ignorance to learn).<br><br>but i do think jonathan would be a great help to the zim ubuntu community.....<br><br>regards<br><br>kt.<br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Ganyani Khosa WebMail <<a href="mailto:khosag@hotmail.com">khosag@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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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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<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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