Making linux more affordable (3 Viewers)

[Martin]

Are you one of thousands out there dying to try linux but you're too cheap to spend $.50 on a cd to burn it on? Now Ubuntu is taking a stand against your financial deficiency and you can get an Ubuntu Linux cd completely free of charge. They even pay for shipping. And they encourage you to order a bunch since they're shipping anyway.

Never thought you would see the day? Now it's here
http://shipit.ubuntulinux.org/

Which brings the price of linux down from $.50/$200 = 1/400th the price of Windows, it's now officially infinitely more affordable.

 

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[jaecole]

Who pays for the headache tablets you need when installing? Or the many lost hours trying to figure out how to get that cool new movie player to just play a movie?

 

[Martin]

Ubuntu is actually terribly out-of-the-box functional because ease of use was their primary goal.

Last week I installed both WinXP w/ SP2 and Ubuntu on a fairly modern and mainstream laptop. Ubuntu auto-detected all hardware by itself, to get the network card working in Windows I had to look for the driver on dell.com (ditto for the video card, the sound card, the pcmcia slot, the touchpad etc). Installing movie/audio codecs is also made quite simple because they explain how in the documentation.

 

[Alucard Belmont]

wow, they even pay the shipment price? why is that? what will they get from this?

 

[Martin]

Presumably more users. Projects like Ubuntu are sponsored by the IT industry, they don't make money themselves but the advancement of Ubuntu can then be used to provide a solid and FREE operating system to thousands of IBM employees. For example.

EDIT: "The Ubuntu Project is a community project with participation from many volunteers, sponsored by Canonical Ltd. Canonical will not charge licence fees for Ubuntu, now or at any stage in the future. Canonical's business model is to provide technical support and professional services related to Ubuntu."

 

[Cronios]

Anyone heard that Nokia will start supporting Linux too?

 

[swag]

++ [ originally posted by Cronios ] ++
Anyone heard that Nokia will start supporting Linux too?

No, but I heard they're getting back into the rubber boot business. :cheesy:

 

[venom]

++ [ originally posted by swag ] ++


No, but I heard they're getting back into the rubber boot business. :cheesy:

They have never left the business If they just never left the toiletpaper business...:frown: although the strike would have shut their factories down also.

 

[Alucard Belmont]

++ [ originally posted by Martin ] ++
Presumably more users. Projects like Ubuntu are sponsored by the IT industry, they don't make money themselves but the advancement of Ubuntu can then be used to provide a solid and FREE operating system to thousands of IBM employees. For example.

EDIT: "The Ubuntu Project is a community project with participation from many volunteers, sponsored by Canonical Ltd. Canonical will not charge licence fees for Ubuntu, now or at any stage in the future. Canonical's business model is to provide technical support and professional services related to Ubuntu."

thnx ^^

 

[Chxta]

Okay, I just ordered it. I have heard too much about Linux, and I have to admit that the free software I use with my Windows OS are better than a lot of what I have been using over time, so...

 

[Chxta]

Today is 29 July, exactly 59 days after I ordered Ubuntu, and just as I was getting frustrated with Redhat, the CD I ordered has arrived. I installed it, and to make a foolish story short, I didn't go to work!

 

[flieeeekke]

++ [ originally posted by Chxta ] ++
Today is 29 July, exactly 59 days after I ordered Ubuntu, and just as I was getting frustrated with Redhat, the CD I ordered has arrived. I installed it, and to make a foolish story short, I didn't go to work!

 

[flieeeekke]

what gives, i ordered one too. it doesnt hurt to try. hopefully...

 

[Marty]

++ [ originally posted by Chxta ] ++
Today is 29 July, exactly 59 days after I ordered Ubuntu, and just as I was getting frustrated with Redhat, the CD I ordered has arrived. I installed it, and to make a foolish story short, I didn't go to work!

lol