[sclug] Cheap Tesco PC's (with Ubuntu Pre-Installed)

[Luke]

Adam Trickett wrote:
> On Friday 26 Oct 2007, Luke wrote:
>   
>> Apologies in advance if you have already stumbled across this;
>>
>> http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-3224/btnResultSort.x%3d509/btnResultSort.y%
>> 3d291.aspx
>>
>> http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-6129/btnResultSort.x%3d509/btnResultSort.y%
>> 3d291.aspx
>>     
>
> I cross posted this to the Hants-LUG list. It seems the news has created quite 
> a stir everywhere...
>
> See: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Tesco_Every_little_helps
>
>
>   

The machine arrived last week - upgraded ubtunu to 7.04 and found no 
problems with hardware support, just needed to tweak the refresh rates 
in xorg for her monitor and hunt around for some canon inkjet drivers.

So mother in law is quite happy Linux user now - in fact she finds 
'aisleriot' solitaire far superior to the windows version of solitaire :-)

To be honest it will need another stick of ram as there is a slight 
delay on certain parts (such as menu drop downs).