[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu in Retail

[Lalremlien Neitham]

Maybe I am wrong, but most of those "DOS" based comes with Ubuntu. It may
also be that I looked only at Dell.

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:25 PM, satyaakam goswami <satyaakam at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Hardik Dalwadi <hardik.dalwadi at ubuntu.com
> > wrote:
>
>> On Sunday 05 June 2011 10:23 PM, Prakash Advani wrote:
>> > Those based in Delhi, if you happen to go to  Nehru Place, do check out
>> > the Asus Store.. they have Ubuntu Demo.
>>
>> @ All,
>>
>> Here is Ubuntu Certified ASUS Machines [1]
>>
>> [1]
>>
>> http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/search?form.search_text=ASUS&search=Search
>>
>> > My colleague Hardik did the setup for them.
>> >
>> > Any constructive feedback would be useful..
>> >
>> > On 06/02/2011 09:59 PM, Narendra Sisodiya wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Prakash Advani <prakash at ubuntu.com
>> >> <mailto:prakash at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>     Hello everyone,
>> >>
>> >>     As a follow up to our Ubuntu in Retail, I have been asked by a
>> >>     store in Nehru Place, Delhi if we can showcase Ubuntu.
>> >>
>> >>     Here is my thoughts, let me know what you guys think.
>> >>
>> >>         * Have 1-2 community members at the store to demo Ubuntu.
>> >>         * Have them wear Ubuntu T-Shirts so people perceive it to be
>> >>           professional.
>> >>         * Offer basic installation for free and charge for additional
>> >>           services. This should compare with other services in Nehru
>> >>           Place, where I believe you can go to a store and they will
>> >>           fill your hard drive with all windows software :)
>> >>         * If the customer wants training then this can be offered at
>> >>           their home at a fee.
>> >>
>> >>     I am thinking we should offer similar services to what people are
>> >>     used to in the Windows world, I know this may not sound very
>> >>     comforting for some of us, but thats what people are used to ;-)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Ubuntu cannot get success (in India) without the project like DebBundle
>>
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>
> Since there was no clue given about which store is The ASUS store , so i
> tried my luck with at least three different places where the name of ASUS
> was mentioned ,one of them prominently only dealt in ASUS so i presumed this
> to be the  store Ubuntu folks have mentioned , this store  did not  have
> Ubuntu based Netbooks at all also he tried to lure me into giving discounts
> on Windows pieces and offered me some DOS based versions but No Ubuntu was
> available with him, there were two other stores which had ASUS displayed
> only one of them agreed and offered Ubuntu based Netbooks .
>
> curiously found a Compaq desktop bundled with Red Flag Linux :-)
>
> overall my experience not a good one like other Distro's in past so i will
> let this case too for rest now.
>
>
> -Satya
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