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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Ubuntuopen week November 26, 2006 Next week is UbuntuOpen Week , a series of events and classes about Ubuntu Linux , and for people interested in getting involved in Ubuntu.
More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement opensource software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. But here’s Ubuntu week 1, not edited or smoothed out. Because I’ve decided that no matter what, I’m not going back.
I’ve mentioned this before, and I do think the conventional wisdom is that opensource software (which includes OpenOffice.org, MySQL and Java) will not flourish at Oracle. It makes sense – Oracle has never had a culture of fostering opensource software, and it seems unlikely to obtain one.
But it’s only been in the last few years that mega storage, and mega processing power were available to organizations to power big web applications and the like. In October I went to a presentation by Rick Clark, the Ubuntu Server Team Manager. They started out with their S3 – simple storage service. Be Helpful.
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My wish for Web 2.5 November 28, 2006 Well, both in the process of learning about all of the very cool web 2.0 Luckily, it seems that most of the project manager type apps in web 2.0 Be Helpful.
October 18, 2007 Ubuntu Linux has a new release, version 7.10, called “ Gutsy Gibbon.&# (Really I don’t know where these names come from!) It seems that with Ubuntu, Linux is getting closer and closer to being a completely viable and usable desktop for everyone. { Be Helpful.
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.
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. Great web development environment, of course. I’ve been through a pretty interesting transformation in the last 2 months.
At Penguin Day, one of the issues discussed was nonprofit adoption of OpenSource software and the issue that there aren't enough technology stewards, translators, documentation, and training available to the end user to make adoption easier. Thanks James!
They are going to release an opensource version later this year, which is wonderful, but I also would have had to pony up another $149 for a year of a Pro account, and that seemed excessive, since I could just as easily set up a Wordpress blog on the host I’m already paying for. One such platform was Typepad. Be Helpful.
My next step, after installing the basic Debian system, is to switch the install to Ubuntu. at 5:33 am Which Ubuntu? Then, I tried to install Ubuntu (Edgy Eft) via netboot. So I switched to the very standard ethernet PC cards that Gavin so thoughtfully included, and bingo – everything works. Edgy or a Feisty beta?
I’m really interested in helping technology providers get up to speed, so that the amount of support available for nonprofits using Linux (and opensource in general) increases. Ubuntu is based on Debian). If you are a provider, please feel free to email me if you want more info or help and support in moving forward.
There are a number of reasons for my deciding to slowly leave the Macintosh platform: I want to focus more energy and time on free and opensource platforms – I might donate what I would have spent on Leopard to some deserving projects. at 7:57 pm You make some very good points and I think I will “go Ubuntu&# too.
August 9, 2007 It’s been 7 weeks of using Ubuntu 7.04 (better known as Feisty Fawn) as my primary desktop. I have no problem getting just about all of my work done using Ubuntu. I’m looking forward to Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10 I figured it was time to give my final assessment. coming out in October. Be Helpful.
July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both opensource software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I tout the benefits of opensource software. Opensource projects do get better. Hopefully with nokia, openmoko, gnome, google, ubuntu, dell and some others, this gap will close. 3) Evolution.
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.) The problems I “solved&# by offloading the functions onto the web. There are several issues here, of course.
Get Ubuntu , and have done already. But if you really want to have done with stuff like this, get Ubuntu. A company going in the other direction: Eudora is going opensource (no, they are not opensourcing old Eudora code, they are changing direction to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the underlying technology.)
So next year, I’ll be doing 100 posts on particular free and opensource tools. 1 trackback } Free and opensource tool #1: Thunderbird » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 01.03.08 1 trackback } Free and opensource tool #1: Thunderbird » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 01.03.08
So I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of free and opensource software in environmentally sustainable computing. But computers of that vintage can pretty happily run Ubuntu Feisty (the current Ubuntu version). I’ll be announcing it, for sure. Elluminate Live! Be Helpful.
of nonprofits already use Linux server-side – either in-house, or if not, their web host usually does. Walmart was selling $200 PCs running gOS (no, that doesn’t stand for googleOS, but greenOS, based on Ubuntu 7.10,) and they sold out. A large chunk (the majority?) Be Helpful.
On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or opensource their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. And, of course, there are some other situations where Linux also shines: kiosks, internet cafes, computer labs and email/web workstations.
I’m on week 3 of my Ubuntu laptop migration – things are smoothing out – I’ve got audio working, I can listen to mp3 and audio streams. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in opensource. That sounded like good advice, since it might take me quite a while to get to step 1.
With all of the amazing examples of really great free and opensource software, here is an example of one that just isn’t what it should be. { at 10:09 am It is the most recent version available for Ubuntu Gutsy (the distro I’m running now.) at 9:41 pm Linux desktops? Or rather, do you have xrandr? 4 admin 03.01.08
But what was once solely an internal project at Google has since been open-sourced and has become one of the most talked about technologies in software development and operations. of the top million web servers’ operating systems are Linux. For good reason. It’s my belief that Kubernetes is becoming the new Linux: 96.4%
You’re working in R, writing in RStudio on a Ubuntu machine, and your data are such and such collected during an in vitro observation. It works through a single link and web app, cross platform, and can even be embedded on a webpage like a document or video. (I’m The capsule itself is here.).
And Microsoft’s exporting its new Edge web browser to Linux. For all your other desktop software needs, there’s usually a free, open-source program that can do just as good a job. The best-known include such distros as Debian , openSUSE , and Ubuntu. Teams now runs on Linux. Skype has long been available on Linux.
It’s a typical scenario in real-world applications, like a web app communicating with a database. This setup lets me run a Linux environment, specifically Ubuntu, on my Windows PC. Configuring MinIO MinIO is an open-source object storage solution, specifically designed to handle large volumes and varieties of data.
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