Indeed this is generally good but there must be some caution for the
thorns that may present. Some users may associate linux with the tesco
value range and whilst it's usable linux, i really hope it's targeted
towards the right office market.
On 28/10/2007, John Cooper <lug@???> wrote:
> 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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