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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: > On 01/02/2009 23:18, Julian Hall wrote: >> Thanks Rob and Richard. I couldn't actually find it in the LUG archive, >> but I then found it looking through my own mail (I tend to keep LUG mail >> about three months). >> >> A bit convoluted, but the netbook I saw belonged to a friend of *my* >> friend who had said he would see if anything better could be done with it. >> >> I've now replied telling my mate to suggest the owner tries to swap it >> for something else - however it was an Xmas present from his wife so not >> sure how well that would go down with her. >> >> > Ahh yeah that could possibly be a problem. We technically he could use > it for internet access, just probably not for sites bogged down with Flash. > > Rob > > Isn't the elonex one partly aimed at education, its a shame that if its as bad as you say it is, then it will give a bad impression of Linux to the very people who would benefit the most, todays youngsters who could do with the one computer per child idea being a reality. if it can't run flash it makes it pretty useless for education given that a lot of sites are flash driven, Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org Next Linux User Group meet : Feb 7th : 3pm, Shoreline Cafe Paignton -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmGyZ4ACgkQaggq1k2FJq3OUgCeKBmJwRLR6zm1rz2favD8vmVF gLgAn1nTQYJcvGD1XEyWB869EjUX1QRa =k2By -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html