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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. I stopped at the license agreement. 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. I’ll understand points of pain, for sure.

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NTEN Visits Free Geek

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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). Since 2000, Free Geek has given away over 16,000 computers to community members, nonprofits, social good groups, and schools.

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Technology providers and Linux

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Ubuntu As this article states, Ubuntu is a very popular distribution right now, and Canonical is working hard to get Ubuntu in as wide a range of hands as possible. Ubuntu also has also focused a lot of effort on building community, and has, hands down, the most vibrant, helpful and deep community of any Linux distribution.

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Linux desktops?

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And so the whole not-having-to-worry-about-licenses envy came up (in my head – no way I’d actually suggest this – I knew it was fantasy). I use Ubuntu on a dual-boot (XP) machine. One minor point: have you tried Twhirl on Ubuntu? Ubuntu, Fedora, Blag, Mandriva, Gentoo, and so on. at 11:21 pm Nice post.

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Varied and sundry

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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5 Questions: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors

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Whether it is on the desktop like Firefox and Open Office or the Ubuntu Linux operating system, or on servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and running CMSs and CRMs (like Drupal and CiviCRM). Session: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? Free and Open Source Software.

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Varied Technology Links (only a little zen)

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Also, for you Windows types, here is a plain english interpretation of the Windows Vista EULA (End User License Agreement.) Get Ubuntu , and have done already. But if you really want to have done with stuff like this, get Ubuntu. How about this one: " You may not work around any technical limitations in the software."