Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 11, 2010
I’m actually quite happy – I can run both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, and I like Android (and my Droid 2 phone) a lot. And, of course, using Ubuntu on the desktop is fun. A scary amount of my data (mail, contacts, photos, task lists, calendars, phone etc.) Great web development environment, of course.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 6, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Giving up, a little August 6, 2007 As you might know, I migrated from using a MacBook Pro laptop as my primary desktop, to eating my own dogfood, as it were, and using Ubuntu Linux as my primary desktop.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 9, 2007
August 9, 2007 It’s been 7 weeks of using Ubuntu 7.04 (better known as Feisty Fawn) as my primary desktop. I have no problem getting just about all of my work done using Ubuntu. So, overall, I like it, and I’m sticking with it, with the exception of my addressbook and calendar. coming out in October.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 28, 2006
Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). So that’s good.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 9, 2008
In Kubuntu, the distribution of Ubuntu I had installed, the WPA-enabled Network Manager isn’t installed by default (or at least it seemed not to have been installed when I did it – could have been my fault.) The problems I “solved&# by offloading the functions onto the web. There are several issues here, of course.
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