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News Flash – Linux Desktop Suck, Android is Not Linux and the Nokia N900s Dropping Out of Orbit
These past few days have seen Dorian scrambling to catchup and not blogging. Dorian still feels the need to fight his e-mails, update his “other” sites and organize his cluttered life, rather than update his readers on exciting developments he has worked on. Instead Dorian will continue writing in the third person, and highlight the…
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Review of Ontario Linux Fest 2009
Two weekends ago I went to Ontario Linux Fest 2009, held here in chilly Toronto for the third year in a row. And for such a young conference, it was quite good. In fact good enough, that longer review of the event is in order: Morning Keynote – Changes to the GPL The day started…
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Karmic Koala is Released!
Hurrah! Ubuntu 9.10 is now officially out there for everyone to grab and enjoy. I’ve been using this release since beta, and I can vouch that is an awesome release. Anyways, go to http://ubuntu.com/ and grab yourself a copy.
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Ontario GNU Linux Fest 2009
Tomorrow I’ll be going to Ontario GNU Linux Fest 2009. It looks like this year it will be another year for this convention. Not sure why the insistence of adding the “GNU” to the name… Still I’ll be there, checking out as many of the presentations as humanly possible. And doing a thorough raid of…
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Looking Forward: Ubuntu’s App Store
Ubuntu developers will be releasing the beta of the next major version of Ubuntu Linux: 9.10 sometime in the next two weeks. Yours truly, plans on upgrading my main home system to help with the beta test. With every release I’m expecting a rather incremental improvement. However the real interest feature (which I doubt will…
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Fake Linus @ LinuxCON
And something for your weekend viewing pleasure: a parody for the “Fake Linus” that appeared on Twitter/identi.ca as part of the prelude to the Linux Foundation‘s new convention in Portland, Oregon: LinuxCON (And yes, I am thinking of updating this blog on a DAILY and not just weekday-ly basis. 😉 )
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Red Hat is Community?
I don’t do this often, but I must say Red Hat’s new ad is pretty rad. Now Red Hat isn’t the only ones building community. But this one video explains Red Hat’s modus operandi. And it is quite catchy!
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Linux… the Future of Computing
I’m a Linux user. So I always like to strain my ear to hear news about Linux. But this I didn’t expect. Caroline and I did a bit of computer shopping before going to watch a film together on Saturday. While we wandered the aisles in the nearby Futureshop, she turned and asked me what…
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Ubuntu 9.04 Released!
A piece of awesomeness just hit the world of computing today: Canonical and friends released Ubuntu 9.04 today! Sweet! Ladies and gentlemen time to rev’ up those installations!
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Why Ubuntu is Important for Me…
So Jono Bacon, Ubuntu community leader (and mister communitizing the community using community tools 😀 ) asks why Ubuntu is important to me. In my case this would be why is Kubuntu important to me, but then we will be arguing over semantics. Yes, the freedom Ubuntu brings into my life is one reason why…