Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

But here’s Ubuntu week 1, not edited or smoothed out. Week 1 I should have taken pictures – unboxing a new laptop is a lot of fun. My first step was to make sure the laptop booted. Once Ubuntu finished booting, I clicked the wonderful “install&# icon at the top. I got a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m.

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Ubuntu Open Source Laptop Open 100

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. I’ve gone from being a Mac/iPhone user, to being a ThinkPad/Android user, and not looking back.

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Ubuntu Alternative Comparison Phone 135

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

The Macintosh operating system has without question, the best, most intuitive user interface ever invented, built on top of the best OS invented, UNIX. I like building my own systems – I need a new desktop, and I like the idea that I can build my own easily, and get a fair bit of power fairly cheaply. So you could have done that.

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Ubuntu Open Source Music Ipod 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

At some point, when I’ve saved up enough pennies, I’m going to buy a Mac laptop again. I’ve basically switched to using my Mac mini for just about everything except the bit of systems admin and coding I do, because it’s just so much easier to set up things on Linux for that type of work. And, guess what?

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Ubuntu Open Source Software Laptop 100