Author: Mark Johnson Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Desperately seeking Ubuntu Webbook - with Bolt
Cutters!
On Thursday 16 October 2008 22:50:18 Lisi wrote:
> But I have a more cheerful addendum. I was in Carphone Warehouse in
> Petersfield yesterday because my granddaughter wanted to put some money on
> her mobile 'phone. I looked idly at the display next to me while waiting
> for her - and there was a Webbook in all its splendour running Ubuntu. So
> when my granddaughter moved on from topping up her mobile 'phone to window
> shopping earphones, I collared the salesman who had been serving her and
> asked if he would like some leaflets explaining Ubuntu. He said that they
> are not allowed to display any leaflets but their own. So I said perhaps
> for the staff, perhaps for him. And he said... He knew thanks. He used
> Linux at home and actually had a Webbook. So I said that there was
> obviously no need for me to attempt to persuade him of its virtues, and he
> said no, there was no need to convert him because he was already
> converted!!! :-)
One of my friends works at CPW. When they first got webbooks he was telling
his housemates how he'd been told the Linux versions were rubbish and you
couldn't do anything with them. Then I used Knoppix to fix his Windows
desktop. It's amazing what a little demonstration can do to educate.
