Archive for the 'GNU/Linux' Category

OLPC XO-1’s from the “Give 1, Get 1″ program arrive in Mongolia

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

We participated in the OLPC Foundation’s “Give 1, Get 1″ (G1G1) program while it was open this last fall (although it was over-subscribed and we have yet to receive our units), BUT! But: I just received an update from OLPC and it included a link to a page they recently put up where they provide […]

I Done Left Los Windows…

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

So as is fairly explicit in a couple of prior posts, I’ve pretty much quit using Microsoft Windows on my personal machine, and am running (K)ubuntu 6.10 “Edgy Eft” natively on it. I’ve been doing this for about 9 months now and haven’t looked back. When I mentioned to a Microsoftie colleague that I’d done […]

Ubuntu 7.10 DVDs available at Barnes & Noble and Borders

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

I was browsing in the newsstand section at my local Barnes & Noble recently, and noticed a bright red & white magazine with “Ubuntu 7.10 + edubuntu, kubuntu, xubuntu” across its cover. Upon reading further I noticed it contains two bootable DVDs, one with the aforementioned four distributions in 32-bit, and the other with the […]