Laptop Open System Ubuntu 
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MAY 21, 2007
More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. But here’s Ubuntu week 1, not edited or smoothed out. My first step was to make sure the laptop booted. Good specs, cheap price.
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. It does feel a bit weird to use Windows sometimes, considering my years as an open source advocate.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 29, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Goodbye Microsoft… March 29, 2007 Just today, I received in the mail some Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops, courtesy of Gavin’s regular potlatch program. at 5:33 am Which Ubuntu?
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.
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. The only time I shut down this laptop is when I’m taking it somewhere, which is relatively rarely. I have no problem getting just about all of my work done using Ubuntu. I love apt-get/aptitude.
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.
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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