[nzlug] acer + ubuntu

[Robin Sheat]

On Wednesday 04 June 2008 17:41:01 simon wrote:
> Meantime - watch DSE for the next wave of the 4315 machines. Tipped to
> have a silly price.

Ohh. If it's really silly, I might have to pick one up for myself to ... I 
dunno ... have...doing something.

> The plan is to create a working image for these things, so they will be
> running Hardy with everything going but the modem. The image is to be
> supplied to the stored to be included with the boxes.

The stores won't install it themselves? Or is that kinda outside the scope of 
what they do?

> Since there will be more linux coming, Acer are looking to the LUGs in
> particular as the people who will be supporting their customers (Acer do

Even if they had the ability for providing local LUG information to people, it 
could be useful. Especially if one or two people at the LUG had access to a 
machine so they knew what they're talking about.

> There is not a lot concrete in that - but what would I expect? Does mean
> that there should be more news soon enough. I'm going to count this as a
> win.

Indeed. Thanks for the info.

> As a side note - when it came to demonstrating that the mic wasn't
> working... it did. I hate it when that happens!

Well that's a turn about for the books. The standard is that when you go to 
demo something, it *won't* work!

Oh, on the topic of hardware, this is worth watching:
http://www.archive.org/details/LRL_USA_2008_Power_Management_Anger/
(or google video, which lets you fullscreen but not download)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7753780993269800999&hl=en

It goes a good way to explaining why some things seem so damn hard to get 
working right. The main points are "manufacturers hate you" and "they can't 
get it right, even when there's a specification".

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