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[Tom <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi :)

I think the idea about Cannonical selling hardware with Ubuntu tailored to it is 
not such a bad idea.  There seems to be a gap in the market at local level.  
Dell and others sell machines with Ubuntu pre-installed and there are a lot of 
Dell machines being sold in computer shops locally but sadly none of the Ubuntu 
Dells are on display and the sales staff are clueless.  Perhaps getting a 
smaller distributor /OEM might make a difference?  Perhaps getting a local shop 
to have a specialty section or something might help?  


The original suggestion from Torpedolos seemed based on a few widespread 
mis-conceptions.  Apple is growing but Ubuntu is almost certainly growing faster 
but is starting from a smaller market share.  Apple are highly visible and spend 
a fortune on PR and advertising.  Ubuntu just gets on mostly by word-of-mouth.  
I doubt Apple costs less to develop as a lot of Ubuntu is developed for free, 
certainly a lot of the bug-squad work for free.  Do we really know if Apple's OS 
is lighter and faster than Ubuntu?  I have found installing Ubuntu on different 
machines makes Ubuntu look and feel quite different, especially on machines that 
have bluetooth devices or wireless or both.  Sure there are usually 1 or 2 
things that need to be tweaked but usually on almost all hardware it seems to 
set-up just fine.  Out of 4 recent machines 2 didn't need any tweaking to get 
hardware working although i swapped the window buttons back to the Windows side 
rather than the Mac side.  1 machine needed to have "cheese" installed but then 
intgrated the web-cam into all appropriate apps without any further agro.  Just 
my own home-machine happens to be awkward with 10.04 for some reason but was/is 
fine with 9.04.  Oh and i never have been good at setting up network printers on 
any OS.

Still there is clearly a big gap there in local stores.

Regards from
Tom :)

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