Tesco, Every little helps…

Tesco are selling computers with Ubuntu pre-installed. However much I dislike ‘Tescopoly’; I am impressed that they are selling these systems, and may even get one myself. They state under ‘Features’ that it comes with 6.06, which in some ways is a shame, although it is the current LTS release – these computers are modern enough to really see a benefit from the advancements, and ‘eye-candy’ that Gutsy has given us. Sadly the users will probably not be prompted to upgrade until “Hardy Heron – 8.04″.

One slight concern I do have, is support. New ‘converts’ to Linux tend to require some support and I suspect this is not being offered. Hopefully I am incorrect.

Surprisingly this has come in quietly, and was noticed by the ever shrewd “John Levin” on the Ubuntu-UK mailing list.

Tesco PC

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October 20th, 2007 | All, Blogroll, hantslug, ubuntu, ubuntu-uk

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Pingback by Alex Ormandy » Blog Archive » Tesco, Every little helps — 3 November, 2007 @ 9:33 pm

My mother has the same spec computer from ebuyer ,although at the time it was Suse i installed Ubuntu.
Had no complaints since :-)

Comment by Fintan — 3 November, 2007 @ 4:51 pm

[...] This fact, which could potentially have a big effect on the mindset of UK retailers was only noticed in passing by John Levin on the Ubuntu-UK mailing list. I only saw it as it made it’s way in to the blogosphere courtesy of an Ubuntu based blog written by Dave Walker.” [...]

Pingback by Rich on Linux, OSS and other stuff » tech.blorge.com : Tesco sell computers with Ubuntu pre-installed - Linux on the up? — 23 October, 2007 @ 7:09 pm

Actually, everyone knows GNU’s Not Unix and that Linux is one of its kernels.

Comment by Matt Lee — 23 October, 2007 @ 11:48 am

David, Linux was an implementation of Minix not UNIX.

Comment by Dougie — 22 October, 2007 @ 7:58 pm

Bill, by your logic Unix should be more popular than Linux, since Linux was ‘based on’ Unix.

Comment by David Russell — 22 October, 2007 @ 10:54 am

hmmm, not a big fan of ubuntu. shouldn’t debian be more popular, seeing as ubuntu is based on it?

Comment by bill — 22 October, 2007 @ 12:57 am

randomwalker:
Of course you can have both, look at Gutsy. It is stable enough and has compiz fusion enabled by default. Dell sells computers with feisty and will asap switch to feisty.

Comment by Bastiaan — 21 October, 2007 @ 9:59 pm

1 Gb level 3 cache I assume
80Gb level 4

the rest is the internet ;-)

Comment by Will — 21 October, 2007 @ 8:13 pm

I personally will not buy electricals from Tesco, if you like to know about latest news and reviews related to websites checkout http://www.WhichWebsite.com

Comment by Mikey — 21 October, 2007 @ 8:11 pm

Keith:

buy a pc with a brand? what a branded idiot you are…(sorry)…i’ll never ever buy a branded PC. i’d rather buy a white box. have had too many problems with branded PCs. when they break down, finding spares in the open market can be a problem, and also, the company may not support you with their mostly customized hardware. silly, silly, thing to do.

chris: you seem to be a fool of a different kind. looks like you don’t know much how about how these computers are manufactured

Comment by ghost rider — 21 October, 2007 @ 7:11 pm

I wonder how many people will buy one expecting to be able to run all the same software as their friends on it

People shopping in tescos will want things simple and common.

Comment by chris — 21 October, 2007 @ 5:26 pm

I would personally, never go for computers that are sold are Tesco, though sometimes they may be quite good. But, it’s still highly recommended to go for one that’s with a brand.

Comment by Keith — 21 October, 2007 @ 4:17 pm

Tesco fails

Comment by Panda — 21 October, 2007 @ 4:01 pm

I’ve not seen these in-store with the other pc stuff – anyone know if these are web only? Will be interesting to see what demand Tesco has for Ubuntu.

Comment by Pete White — 21 October, 2007 @ 3:48 pm

Awesome! This, combined with attention in Dutch national press to the release of Gutsy, clearly shows that Ubuntu is growing!

Comment by Vincent — 21 October, 2007 @ 3:46 pm

Anyone else notice the specs on that AMD machine?
PC Processor Cache 1 GB

That’s a hell of a lot of cache!

Comment by Ian — 21 October, 2007 @ 12:17 pm

you can’t have both — reach out to new users and have bleeding edge releases — at the same time.

Comment by randomwalker — 21 October, 2007 @ 12:00 am