Tesco are selling computers with Ubuntu pre-installed. However much I dislike ‘Tescopoly’; I am impressed that they are selling these systems, and may even get one myself. They state under ‘Features’ that it comes with 6.06, which in some ways is a shame, although it is the current LTS release - these computers are modern enough to really see a benefit from the advancements, and ‘eye-candy’ that Gutsy has given us. Sadly the users will probably not be prompted to upgrade until “Hardy Heron - 8.04″.
One slight concern I do have, is support. New ‘converts’ to Linux tend to require some support and I suspect this is not being offered. Hopefully I am incorrect.
Surprisingly this has come in quietly, and was noticed by the ever shrewd “John Levin” on the Ubuntu-UK mailing list.
Links to the systems offered:
October 21st, 2007 at 12:00 am
you can’t have both — reach out to new users and have bleeding edge releases — at the same time.
October 21st, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Anyone else notice the specs on that AMD machine?
PC Processor Cache 1 GB
That’s a hell of a lot of cache!
October 21st, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Awesome! This, combined with attention in Dutch national press to the release of Gutsy, clearly shows that Ubuntu is growing!
October 21st, 2007 at 3:48 pm
I’ve not seen these in-store with the other pc stuff - anyone know if these are web only? Will be interesting to see what demand Tesco has for Ubuntu.
October 21st, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Tesco fails
October 21st, 2007 at 4:17 pm
I would personally, never go for computers that are sold are Tesco, though sometimes they may be quite good. But, it’s still highly recommended to go for one that’s with a brand.
October 21st, 2007 at 5:26 pm
I wonder how many people will buy one expecting to be able to run all the same software as their friends on it
People shopping in tescos will want things simple and common.
October 21st, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Keith:
buy a pc with a brand? what a branded idiot you are…(sorry)…i’ll never ever buy a branded PC. i’d rather buy a white box. have had too many problems with branded PCs. when they break down, finding spares in the open market can be a problem, and also, the company may not support you with their mostly customized hardware. silly, silly, thing to do.
chris: you seem to be a fool of a different kind. looks like you don’t know much how about how these computers are manufactured
October 21st, 2007 at 8:11 pm
I personally will not buy electricals from Tesco, if you like to know about latest news and reviews related to websites checkout http://www.WhichWebsite.com
October 21st, 2007 at 8:13 pm
1 Gb level 3 cache I assume
80Gb level 4
the rest is the internet
October 21st, 2007 at 9:59 pm
randomwalker:
Of course you can have both, look at Gutsy. It is stable enough and has compiz fusion enabled by default. Dell sells computers with feisty and will asap switch to feisty.
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:57 am
hmmm, not a big fan of ubuntu. shouldn’t debian be more popular, seeing as ubuntu is based on it?
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:54 am
Bill, by your logic Unix should be more popular than Linux, since Linux was ‘based on’ Unix.
October 22nd, 2007 at 7:58 pm
David, Linux was an implementation of Minix not UNIX.
October 23rd, 2007 at 11:48 am
Actually, everyone knows GNU’s Not Unix and that Linux is one of its kernels.
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:09 pm
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November 3rd, 2007 at 4:51 pm
My mother has the same spec computer from ebuyer ,although at the time it was Suse i installed Ubuntu.
Had no complaints since
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