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My name is Geoffrey Jost and this is my blog, in which I mostly write about things of interest to me. Your mileage may vary. : ]
My name is Geoffrey Jost and this is my blog, in which I mostly write about things of interest to me. Your mileage may vary. : ]
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posted 25 Apr 2008 (Fri) at 11:28a.m. from the office
FYI, the Ubuntu just released version 8.04 of their Linux distribution. I run Ubuntu on the servers and my desktop at work, and on my personal laptop, and I wholeheartedly recommend it. If you've heard that Linux is just for geeks, it's totally not true any more. Linux is a rock-solid operating system that runs well even on old computers, and the Ubuntu team have packaged it so that it's really easy to use and pretty easy to install.
I could go on about how Linux is free and open, and lets you monkey around with the source-code of your programs, and that's all true. But the best thing about Linux and other open-source projects is the people.
posted 25 Apr 2008 (Fri) at 9:07a.m. from the Gold Line
Those folks up in PDX have really got it going on. I just ran across the web site for Free Geek, which is an organization that takes donations of computers and either recycles them responsibly (if they're too old) or refurbishes them, installs Linux, and then gives them away.
