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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Ubuntu open week November 26, 2006 Next week is Ubuntu Open Week , a series of events and classes about Ubuntu Linux , and for people interested in getting involved in Ubuntu.
That isn’t quite changing today — but a company called Lambda is now putting Ubuntu on a souped-up version of last year’s Razer Blade 15 Advanced with Razer’s full blessing, with the aim of selling it to machine learning and artificial intelligence researchers. Lambda’s FAQ page does not address heat as of today.
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. I’ve been through a pretty interesting transformation in the last 2 months. That’s not a problem I’ve been facing anymore.
I hate to be so blunt, but it is true, at least in comparison to the ones on the Mac. Hopefully with nokia, openmoko, gnome, google, ubuntu, dell and some others, this gap will close. I used to have this great system where I used the Mac Addressbook, which would nicely sync with my cell phone. It was great. Except… it sucks.
These days, you can find most kinds of software for the Mac, but there still is a relative paucity of apps in comparison to Windows. Why Linux (in my case Ubuntu) sucks: I have to go through arcane (and luckily for me, fairly painless) procedures to get simple things to work ( like plugging a headset with a mic into my jack!
Here is an excellent screencast, an introduction to Linux (Ubuntu). NTEN does a comparison on Alexa of several social networking sites. Tobias Schonwetter, discusses the analogy between copyright law and culture in many regions of the world and an interview with Anna Badimo, chairperson of LinuxChix Africa. New (to me) Nonprofit Blogs.
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