Adam Trickett wrote:
> On Sunday 28 Oct 2007, Dave Walker wrote:
>
>> The first I heard of it was on the ubuntu-uk mailing list courtesy of
>> John Levin.
>>
>> I decided to blog it, somebody submitted it to digg and it hit the front
>> page for a time. Around 14,000 people actually visited my blog with the
>> story, and many more (I suspect) would have read the story via the
>> planets it aggregates to. I'm quite surprised Tesco's hasn't
>> investigated the extra traffic those two sites have gained!
>>
>> http://digg.com/linux_unix/Tesco_Every_little_helps
>>
>
> I'm no ubuntu fan nor as you suggest a fan of giant supermarkets but it is
> good to see someone selling (hopefully in volume) something without the
> Microsoft tax on it.
>
> With luck we will see more vendors offering Linux, which will given time
> improve hardware support for Linux. It's a long road but all journeys start
> with just one step.
>
> I've been thinking of getting my father a faster PC, it won't be running
> Ubuntu, Debian is my Linux of choice, but if someone ships a PC running a
> Linux I can probably be assured it will run my Linux. My choice is limited at
> the moment but some extra choice is more than welcome. Tesco++
>
>
This is excellent news and this is the start of real choice. Anyway,
isn't Ubuntu basically Debian but useable, ontime and supported? ;-)
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