manchicken here…

So I just remembered that I have a treasure-trove of photos that I took while I was in Spain at UDS-Sevilla that I never shared with you all. Let’s take a look, shall we?
So this is the first view I got when I started getting settled into the hotel room for the evening. […]

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Hey folks, so I don’t know how many of you lovely happy people have been running the latest development version of Ubuntu, codenamed Gutsy Gibbon.  Gosh, I’ve been running it since its second week in existence, and I must say I’m well pleased.
One of the first thing I noticed when I switched over was that […]

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Anyway, we’re talking about a lot of things. The neatest things that I’m seeing are the stuff going into Edubuntu. We’ve got a lot of folks here who are focused on international use of GNU/Linux in educational settings. There are two of those little tiny childrens’ laptops here, both the MIT OLPC […]

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So you have all probably noticed that I haven’t made any posts to my blog since I mentioned that I would. Well, boy are you in for a treat today! We’ve been discussing all of the lovely things that make up Ubuntu, and how we can make them better. I, obviously, […]

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Okay… so we’ve had this discussion going on for a long time. In the BadVista mailing lists Ubuntu has taken quite a beating due to its default inclusion of non-free hardware drivers. Well, that and the use of the words “open source” where the words “free software” are more appropriate.
Well, I’ve been a […]

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Don’t forget all you Ubuntu-lovin’ folks in Illinois! May 19th is the first “official” meeting of Ubuntu-Illinois, at manchicken’s house of hack. There will be UDS debriefing, talks of possible sprints, perhaps a mini hackathon, food, and of course beer. I’ll see if I can pick up a single-malt as well, but […]

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