qwijibow 0 Report post Posted March 17, 2005 remember the thead about free Ubuntu cd's a month or 2 ago ???well i applied, and they have finaly got them !i ordered 1x86 cd, and one AMD64 cd.and i ALSO recieved a LiveCD !!!!fantastic !(although im a little dissapointed that version 5 is comming out next month.ohh well, i will download version 5 later.did any of you guys get uor cd's yet ?? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG 0 Report post Posted March 17, 2005 Jolly cool.. I haven't got mine yet - but hopefully they'll be here soon. You probably got it much faster than anyone else bcoz of the fact that you're in UK and this was being shipped out from somewhere nearby... Have fun man I'm still hoping my shipment gets delayed and I get the next version instead... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vagodeoz 0 Report post Posted March 17, 2005 Really?!?! I "ordered" mine like 2 days ago and it said the new version will be out in April I think, and they will send it in April... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tattoopunk 0 Report post Posted March 17, 2005 ordered mine, but then got fedora core 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PC Astray 0 Report post Posted March 18, 2005 I thought it was a mere joke...so I, being an extra, ordered fourteen discs and got them two minutes ago...Not what I expected but I got more than I asked for. Now what am I supposed to do with them? LoL, I guess I'll try it out once I get a new hard drive for the PC I've assembled from parts I manage to get my hands on. Its' not like I have alot of money and I have to live off my relatives... :DThis is the first time I heard of Ubuntu and there is a new version coming right up? Damn... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG 0 Report post Posted March 18, 2005 Hurrrrrrrrrrrraaah !!! My CDs have arrived too.. Even I was thinking it as a BIG BIG JOKE till today. They just arrived this morning.. All right, I'll admit that like a greedy pig I'd ordered 30 Intel CDs & 10 AMD-64 CDs - but that was just to see if they really do it... and OMG, indeed I received 40 CDs today morning.. I shouldn't be grumbling about it - but there goes my CHANCE for the next version lol... Â What I wonder though is that it took them 22 Euros to ship that box weighing 1.8 Kilos to Thailand. How are they generating that money to support this program ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
qwijibow 0 Report post Posted March 18, 2005 Lol.... so your the reason they had to post that shortage of cd's warning.I hope you have a lot of friends to hand them out to.Like they say on their website, its cheaper to mail them in bulk, and have you hand them out to friends than it is to post each cd individually. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG 0 Report post Posted March 19, 2005 Hehe - I guess so they exhausted the present lot because of me Now I've to go put up a little distribution stall in the town closest to me .. maybe I should ask them to send me some free t-shirts too Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
harriko 0 Report post Posted March 19, 2005 t this was quite a while ago in the UK, which is where iam obviously. tried the cd with the live cd, without any need of installing it into my system. when it finally loaded up it looked pretty ok. looks like any other lunix operating system. it also had games and stuff really on the cd also! the operating wasnt very good to me so i went back to windows xp. i say the ubuntu cd is for the complete beginners to computers and also want to use the lunix operating system. im looking for a little bit more advanced operrating system. something like the mandrake 10 or 9.1 version of the operating system. the interface looks really good and you have loads of control (i think). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
musichere 0 Report post Posted March 20, 2005 I'm very proud of them for doing this but from trying the live CD I realised that it wouldn't support my graphics and for some reason it would only run in a crap graphic quality and 640x800 resolution, which is about half of what I need.  Here are my screenshots, but I'm still dissatisfied because I can't use it at all  Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arunkumarhg 0 Report post Posted March 21, 2005 Hi,I ordered 15 days before, but till now no cd's, how many days they will take to ship the CD's, any idea's Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
musichere 0 Report post Posted March 21, 2005 They should take longer than 15 days to be honest , but you can't expet great things since you're getting a free service and they have to cover the cost of burning, printing, casing etc. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vagodeoz 0 Report post Posted March 22, 2005 Well... I also ordered like 20 cds, since on the order page it said "fell free to order as much cds as you want, since shipping charges are more than cd production itself" or something like that.In any case... 20 cds... I won't have to buy birthday presents for a while =P Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
toby 0 Report post Posted September 30, 2006 I got 30 for free a few months ago and it took about two weeks to reach me. I got 10 of PC and Mac, then 5 of other sorts I think. I tried them at school but it didn't work.It looks really good, I'm glad I could try it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SP Rao 0 Report post Posted October 7, 2006 I've applied for 5 X86 CDs a couple of weeks back. I had tried their earlier versions. I find it a good operating system. My CDs haven't arrived yet; hope they'll arrive soon;-)For those who haven't tried Ubuntu yet, try this link for download/free shipping Ubuntu DownloadI think Ubuntu is truely a community OS. I feel it desrves atleast a try. I will be installing Ubuntu as my linux OS along with XP ofcourse. (I don't have a PC yet, soon I'll be getting it So far all the experimentations were with rommmates' PCs). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
