New project coming: Linuxpreloaded.com

To actually browse the files you need to download them on your computer through the SVN protocol. This requires the svn package installed on your computer (on Ubuntu, Synaptic does it easily) and typing some command-line code, which I forgot I use a GUI, RapidSVN, which makes it much easier (all you need to do is do a checkout of the repository at the url above). Another good GUI is KDEsvn.
HTH, sorry for the delay.

The website is now online, although this is not an official release. We are still testing things and setting up a Spanish translation. Thanks for your proposal - we'll attempt a digg later on and any publicity will be welcome.

Indeed. We're quite open as to the commercial arrangements, and because it's a delicate situation we'd rather do the discussion privately. This should not be a problem however, since sadly PC vendors that don't do Windows primarily are to few and far in between.
If you want to become a commercial partner we're all ears

We thought about it but in the end we went for a separate website indeed.

I didn't say so before, but simple works, too. It depends. In that particular page, I think I would have liked that picture to have been a little more something. Maybe if all the pictures had been of the same style I wouldn't have noticed.

Anyway, it's nice you have a ticketing system, and I also wouldn't exactly call a user's quarter-gripe about a pic a showstopper. I took advantage of the opportunity to bring something up that I had been meaning to say for a bit. Among most of the FOSS crowd, there are many aspects of a website or presentation that are valuable beyond the glitz and polish, but many other users will judge quality and administer their time based on the "professional" look or lack of it above anything else (sell them Windows and they'd hardly notice or remember).

Volunteers are always in short supply and that is what most people contributing likely are. Once you have the meat of the site working (or maybe before) focus on how you gain the attention of people with skills you'd like to have contribute. OK, I am sure you are already doing this, in part by posting here. I would like the benefits of the FOSS way be shared more among artists. Appealing to them so that they come on board would really help Linux reach mainstream. And yes, there are artists among us. Supply is short however, and few of these focus principally on art.

Nothing new, just adding my 2 cents worth to the vote totals.

Interesting article.
Never heard about Zonbu, gOS or eeePC (What?! Asus selling a GNU/Linux PC?) before.

I really liked the Zonbu video. Never thought about this Matrix scene like this. Great idea to put it in there.

Only thing I didn't like about their site is how hard it was to find what OS they were using. Apparently it's a Gentoo based distro. The info is there, but hard to find.
But normal customers wouldn't be interested in that anyway, so it's not that bad.

For those interested:
Zonbu->Based on Gentoo
gOS->Based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian
eeePC->Uses Xandros, based on Corel Linux, based on Debian

Honestly I really doubt that a Blender model will be better than the current graphic. Real-world texture and lighting are extremely difficult to reproduce; also, in this case a 3D model isn't really required since we only make use of one picture... hope this is not too pessimistic but I really believe we are better off with some stock photography if we want to bring a difference compared to the current graphic.

Well, it's not like I'm spending a lot of time on it. And as said, I'm no graphics-guy, so on one hand it's not so easy for me, on the other hand it's something I like to play around with and hope to improve.

So, although this might not be necessary I think I'll still continue, just to improve a bit with Blender, and then maybe we use it, or maybe not. Won't matter very much to me. I've rendered other things before, more complex stuff that even rendered for up to an hour or two, and it's just sleeping on my HD, without anybody else knowing of it's existence.