Well, I’ve decided to wipe the default operating system and, like Fr. Chris had intimated, add a specially-adapted version of Xubuntu (a version of Ubuntu with a lighter interface) in its place.
The deciding factor was a little caution in the user guide:
Removing the pre-installed software is not allowed.
Really? Even though I have no interest […]
While the XO Laptop is an interesting piece of hardware, two of its best features are out of reach for North Americans who want buy one in the current “Buy One, Send One” promotion.
You don’t get the power crank that lets you power the machine away from mains electricity.
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Apart from adding bits and pieces, my one big change in my computer use is to drop my free-standing news reader (Liferea, for Linux) and use Google Reader instead. It can handle by 180 feeds much quicker than Liferea and using Google Reader means I don’t have to manage a different news reader at home […]
I play hard and rough with my home computer, so about twice a year I need to reinstall my documents and software. I did this last week and decided to keep my system a bit leaner than usual.
The new version of Ubuntu Linux looks like it’ll be relatively popular if the slow downloads today were any indication. Download by BitTorrent — quite legal — is your best and fastest best, or to wait a few days if you can.
Here for the torrent list; most people will want gutsy-desktop-i386.iso
But perhaps you wonder what’s […]
Much happiness.
The new version — the Gutsy Gibbon — of Ubuntu Linux has arrived, and it suggests an easier than ever upgrade. I’ll be trying it out.
You can celebrate by downloading it at Ubuntu.com
I know some of my readers are keen Ubuntu Linux users, and tomorrow the new release — codenamed Gutsy Gibbon — comes out.
Do you plan on installing it? Investigating it?
Please comment, especially if you are a minister or church employee or leader, if this is your first time with Linux (or Ubuntu Linux) or both.
We bloggers each have our funny subjects of interest. One of mine — stumbled upon by accident — is reporting in English about Linux versions in Spain. It’s a fascinating subject as many of the regional governments (comunidades autónomas) have developed Linux versions, known as distributions, for schools, government, institutions and public use. And each […]
GNOME, the desktop that comes basic with my Ubuntu Linux operating system (and other versions of Linux) has its own guiding organization, which promotes GNOME at events all over the world. I think a lot of church people could appreciate the level of committment. I certainly appreciate the product.
To make exhibiting easier, they have a […]
Hubby and I sept a couple of pleasant hours at the Takoma Park Folk Festival today. Inside-the-Beltway types know Takoma Park, Maryland — just over the D.C. line — is a wealthy suburb that takes crunchy-granola liberalism to the nth degree. (Someone explained it this way: it was founded by Seventh-Day Adventists and their vegetarianism […]
