[Wiltshire] Just a simple intro

[David Fletcher]

On Friday 13 March 2009 08:10:38 Greg Browne wrote:
> daveg " I'm mucking about with oldish, cheapish laptops and leaving
> the houshold min stayers alone - so far."
>
> To me that is one of the growth areas, that and netbooks. My 10 year old
> laptop performs poorly with XP but great with MEPIS (similar to Ubuntu but
> not so restrictive). My main computer is an ex Win2K machine that works
> fast with gOS (basically Ubuntu with google gadgets). Surely VISTA brought
> many to the fork in the road and at that point paths diverged for ever - it
> is a non-starter for me and I haven't even tried Windows 7.

I think the tide is definitely turning. Just take a look here:-
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/french-police-saves-millions-of-euros-by-adopting-ubuntu.ars
All the workers using these PCs will have been finding out from the sys admins 
about what they're now using, and some of then will by now have installed 
Ubuntu on their home PCs and told their friends about it.

And I see that the OLPC project is now thinking of moving to ARM processors. I 
don't think XP runs on those.

The time could well be just about right to start doing publicity events in 
places such as the Central Library.

Dave