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Linux, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, and Me

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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. Once Ubuntu finished booting, I clicked the wonderful “install&# icon at the top. A few minutes later, I had a Ubuntu install with KDE – but it was bare bones.

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Leaving Apple Behind

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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 been through a pretty interesting transformation in the last 2 months. Great web development environment, of course.

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Why I won’t be buying Leopard

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s been fun, these 20 years with Macintosh. at 2:57 pm As someone who started with an Apple II, then a Pineapple(clone), then a Timex-Sinclair 1000 & 2068, then Performa 450, then PowerComputing(clone), then PC’s with Win98 and now Ubuntu, I guess I understand. The only thing that will be left is games.

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Linux desktops?

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I use Ubuntu on a dual-boot (XP) machine. One minor point: have you tried Twhirl on Ubuntu? I’ve had one of the Dell 1420Ns sold with Ubuntu for a year now, and at this point all four of those things seem easy. As Linus said: Have a lot of fun. Ubuntu, Fedora, Blag, Mandriva, Gentoo, and so on. I bet you did.

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Last minute tidbits

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I wish all a holiday season full of fun, quality time with family (chosen or otherwise), and joy. { Two whole pageviews. I find that fascinating. 1 trackback } Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 01.03.08