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Technology providers and Linux

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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Frustrations

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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.) Plugged it in, and it just worked. Of course with my mac, I opened up the system preferences, checked a button, and, voila!