Posted in Scripting on Mar 26th, 2007
I ambled about outside yesterday for a little while, enjoying the freakness of a 70+ degree day at the end of March in Chicago. I didn’t just wander about aimlessly, though. I had my backpack on, and I had a mission.
My mission was to go to a coffee shop and read up on an ebook [...]
Posted in Collaboration, Desktop Linux, Xubuntu on Mar 21st, 2007
I went to the organizational meeting for Free Geek Chicago last Wednesday night, and got pretty inspired about what the group doing.
Free Geek Chicago is kind of like Habitat for Humanity, but for computers. Basically, people can work at the facility for 20 hours (over several weeks), and then earn a free computer. People can [...]
There’s been a lot of changes going on with x/k/ed/ubuntu ISO testing lately, and a lot of the action is being coordinated in the forums. Check it out if you’re interested.
There’s also a relatively new irc channel for ISO testing discussions, #ubuntu-iso on irc.freenode.net. If you see someone in there with the nick “j1mc,” be [...]
Posted in Desktop Linux, Hardware on Mar 19th, 2007
In regards to Dell’s explorations/websites/surveys regarding Linux on the desktop… I think it’s good they’re asking, but I don’t expect something soon. And if it happens, I don’t think that we’ll see any discount on computers because of them having Linux on the desktop. And I don’t expect any support from Dell (or anyone else) [...]
Ubuntu Illinois / Chicago member Freddy Martinez had given me some brief pointers on filing bugs during one of our more recent Ubuntu-Chicago loco meetings, but my involvement with the ISO testing has really started to give me a taste for what bug reporting and triaging involves. Now that Xubuntu ISO testing is at [...]
After Herd 5’s release, I’ve been playing catch up with other parts of my life. One bit of good news is that my new HP AMD64 computer arrived, and so I’ve been de-commissioning my old computer, and preparing the new machine. Part of getting rid of the old computer has also involved attempts [...]
Posted in Xubuntu on Mar 1st, 2007
it’s been a heck of a past two weeks. Just two weeks ago i knew pretty much nothing about how to edit wiki pages, and then i found myself setting them up so that we’d have an organized platform for testing xubuntu. It turns out that what i set up wasn’t perfect, but at least [...]
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