Open Source – Page 8 – The Future is Open

June 25, 2007

Open minds on open source

I’ve been engaging in an ongoing and rich conversation with fellow educators who value the contribution of open source. This citation came from a link on Bob Sutor’s Open blog

Making “hamburger of Microsoft’s cash cow” by ZDNet‘s Christopher Dawson — Ars technica featured an article last week (Microsoft funds questionable study attacking open source in education“) focusing on a European study of user satisfaction with, and adoption of open source software versus Microsoft products in educational systems. Not surprisingly, the Microsoft-funded study concluded that Microsoft products were not only long-term money-savers, but were also […]

June 15, 2007

Sea change

I’ve been using Ubuntu on the desktop or laptop for a little over a year now and I have to say that it continues to get better with each release. One of the feeds that I read nearly everyday is SolidOffice. Continue reading “Sea change”

June 4, 2007

Ubuntu desktop video

Tonight in exploring the Ubuntu Forums I found a link to a well done video by a new user of Ubuntu. I’m linking to it because I think he’s done such a fine job of talking about the strengths of Ubuntu as an alternative to Vista or even a Macintosh. Continue reading “Ubuntu desktop video”

June 1, 2007

Kino

Today I got a chance to tinker with Kino which is one of the open source apps that comes standard on Ubuntu 7.04. I experimented with Kino a couple years ago when I was using Fedora 3 and Fedora 4 on a Dell Inspiron 5100 notebook. Continue reading “Kino”

May 29, 2007

Open or closed?

A friend of mine commented on a post I had about Ubuntu and Dell and in that he said that Linux is like the wiki concept. Maybe the wiki concept is more like Linux and open source. Regardless of how one looks at either, open source is an new model of production which favors the wiki model of code and content creation. It seems that the latter has the potential for more power and at the same time has created a great deal of destabilization in the traditional market place. It seems however that this new model is here to stay at least for the short term. Whatever replaces it will grow out of it and not the old industrial age model of a closed system. Continue reading “Open or closed?”

May 27, 2007

Ubuntu Studio

Friday night I happened upon a blog where the writer explained how to install Ubuntu Studio on my laptop. I had just downloaded the ISO on Thursday and was interested but didn’t want to rebuild by laptop. Continue reading “Ubuntu Studio”

May 26, 2007

Dell talks about desktop choice…

I just finished watching a really well produced video on Dell Computer’s website. It is one of the better introductions to Linux I’ve seen. Salient features of Linux include cost, susceptibility to malware and system stability. Continue reading “Dell talks about desktop choice…”

May 25, 2007

Praise for Dell

Dell has Ubuntu loaded desktops and one laptop for sale on their site. I looked the models over last night and they are nicely equipped. They have Intel Core Duo processors and the prices are fabulous. I recommend that you surf on over and buy one. I think I’m going to get the Inspiron E1505 myself. They come preloaded with Ubuntu 7.04. Thank you Michael Dell and Mark Shuttleworth. Go Dell!!

May 25, 2007

Praise for Ubuntu

Yesterday, I downloaded the ISO for Ubuntu Studio from one of their mirrors onto my Windows XP Pro desktop at work. I’ve been an email discussion with a number of educators and one of the innovators in this discussion owns a Macintosh with Parallels and he has Feisty Fawn and Ubuntu Studio loaded in a couple of virtual machines. Continue reading “Praise for Ubuntu”