[SWLUG] mass marketing Linux?

[Dave Cridland]

On Mon Feb 13 19:33:55 2006, Glasiad wrote:
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I've actually written the reformatter for this just not yet plugged 
it into the code, but still - plain text - ideally format=flowed - is 
always better on any mailing list. It's also smaller, by a sizeable 
margin, and works better on constrained devices.

Now, moving on...

What my company has been known to do with machines like this is 
install Ubuntu on them for use as email/web workstations. We've at 
least one customer who specifically asked for this, so their "work" 
computer (which has all the accounts on, etc) is not connected to the 
Internet, whereas the Ubuntu machine is.

We stuck with GNOME for this particular customer, and he's perfectly 
happy with it. This is someone who had never used Linux before, and 
we've had one support call back from it. He's now quite keen to 
switch his work machine, but with the accounts data, that's a little 
more involved.

Dave.
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