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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NOVEMBER 8, 2007

A lot of organizations of all types want support, and are willing to pay for it, and Red Hat is, at this point, built the best business model around this than any other distro ( Canonical , with Ubuntu , is sneaking up behind, but I’m not sure it has the “enterprise&# style some people look for.) 2 Brian 11.23.07 Be Helpful.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2007

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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AUGUST 12, 2007

I’m really interested in helping technology providers get up to speed, so that the amount of support available for nonprofits using Linux (and open source in general) increases. Ubuntu is based on Debian). If you are a provider, please feel free to email me if you want more info or help and support in moving forward.

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JULY 15, 2007

They are going to release an open source version later this year, which is wonderful, but I also would have had to pony up another $149 for a year of a Pro account, and that seemed excessive, since I could just as easily set up a Wordpress blog on the host I’m already paying for. One such platform was Typepad. Be Helpful.

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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. I’m looking forward to Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10 I figured it was time to give my final assessment. coming out in October. Be Helpful.

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MARCH 29, 2007

My next step, after installing the basic Debian system, is to switch the install to Ubuntu. at 5:33 am Which Ubuntu? Then, I tried to install Ubuntu (Edgy Eft) via netboot. So I switched to the very standard ethernet PC cards that Gavin so thoughtfully included, and bingo – everything works. Edgy or a Feisty beta?

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JUNE 24, 2008

On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. And, of course, there are some other situations where Linux also shines: kiosks, internet cafes, computer labs and email/web workstations.

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JULY 9, 2007

July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I tout the benefits of open source software. Open source projects do get better. Hopefully with nokia, openmoko, gnome, google, ubuntu, dell and some others, this gap will close. 3) Evolution.

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DECEMBER 20, 2007

So next year, I’ll be doing 100 posts on particular free and open source tools. 1 trackback } Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 01.03.08 1 trackback } Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 01.03.08

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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.) In fact, what’s funny is that things that do in fact “just work&# with Linux almost surprise me. Be Helpful.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2007

Walmart was selling $200 PCs running gOS (no, that doesn’t stand for googleOS, but greenOS, based on Ubuntu 7.10,) and they sold out. Linux is more secure, more stable, and can be used on older hardware. Figuring out a clear migration strategy that takes all of this into consideration. { Be Helpful.

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JUNE 1, 2007

I’m on week 3 of my Ubuntu laptop migration – things are smoothing out – I’ve got audio working, I can listen to mp3 and audio streams. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source. That sounded like good advice, since it might take me quite a while to get to step 1.

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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 ).

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FEBRUARY 29, 2008

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

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AUGUST 23, 2007

So I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of free and open source software in environmentally sustainable computing. But computers of that vintage can pretty happily run Ubuntu Feisty (the current Ubuntu version). I’ll be announcing it, for sure. Be Helpful.

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OCTOBER 19, 2006

Get Ubuntu , and have done already. But if you really want to have done with stuff like this, get Ubuntu. A company going in the other direction: Eudora is going open source (no, they are not open sourcing old Eudora code, they are changing direction to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the underlying technology.)

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