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NTEN Visits Free Geek

NTEN

Several NTEN staff have been long-time supporters, and NTEN has always donated its old electronics to Free Geek. Free Geek keeps costs low and in line with its values by sending computers out with the free and open source Ubuntu operating system (rather than purchasing Windows licenses, for example).

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Why I won’t be buying Leopard

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There are a number of reasons for my deciding to slowly leave the Macintosh platform: I want to focus more energy and time on free and open source platforms – I might donate what I would have spent on Leopard to some deserving projects. at 7:57 pm You make some very good points and I think I will “go Ubuntu&# too.

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Why sometimes eating your own dogfood makes you want to throw up!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

With all of the amazing examples of really great free and open source software, here is an example of one that just isn’t what it should be. { at 10:09 am It is the most recent version available for Ubuntu Gutsy (the distro I’m running now.) at 9:41 pm Linux desktops? Or rather, do you have xrandr? 4 admin 03.01.08