Jane Silber posted on the ubuntu-news-team list that Ubuntu could get plugged on US TV Wednesday during a discussion of new notebooks.
Day: Wednesday, 27 August 08
Time: Between 9AM-10AM EST (east coast time)
TV Show: NBC’s The Today Show
Segment: Unknown, but during a discussion of new notebooks.
If you have access to a DVR, remember to record it.
The Ubuntu Georgia US Team is proud to announce Atlanta Linux Fest 2008!
The Atlanta Linux Fest is the place to come and learn, discuss, and discover your next favorite system!
Atlanta Linux fest will be host to many distributions: Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Mandriva — all on the bleeding edge of innovation. If you are curious about what makes Linux the ultimate operating system, you definitely want to attend this event! There will be Live CDs available so you can try out the latest releases on your machine without installing anything.
There will be demos of distributions, installation help, user support for all your favorite distributions, and drawings for prizes! All you have to do is register to come (it’s free!) and there will be pizza available for a $5 donation to the event.
Demonstrations will include IBMers showing off Symphony, multimedia, dual-booting for your college kids PC, Fedora 10, and much more!
This event will be held on Software Freedom Day. The Atlanta Linux Fest will celebrate the freedom Linux distributions provide and help educate users about the benefits of using high quality free and open source software in education, government, home, business — in short, everywhere!
This event will be held:
Saturday, September 20, 2008, 11am - 6pm
IBM Hillside Conference Center
4111 Northside Pkwy Atlanta, GA.
30327
(Map)
Register Today! (required to use free wifi) @ http://atlantalinuxfest.org
Ubuntu Podcast episode #5 is out! We changed up the theme to the site, to make the video pop out. Anyway, we covered some Intrepid highlights, the great work Free IT Athens is doing, the possibility of Empathy replacing Pidgin, and lots more.
Since I have the occasional man-crush (see Weechat and Weechat on 21″ LCDs), I thought I’d share my latest one.
A little backstory first. My workstation at the office was initially an IBM box, 2 gigabytes of RAM, 2.5GHz or so, single core. It worked fine for a while. Then everyone was upgraded to Core 2 Duo machines, with 4 gigs of RAM, Nvidia video cards…with CentOS 4.5.
Eh.
Now, CentOS is a fine server OS, but for a workstation? And RPMs? We won’t get into that. Plus we had to run XP in VMware, so we could use Outlook. Why not use Outlook Web Access you ask? Apparently the version of Exchange we were running didn’t support reserving resources or rooms when creating appointments from OWA.
Some lucky people got Ubuntu 7.04 or 7.10 instead of CentOS. Still, dual head set up with Nvidia was a bit tricky. And kernel updates would cause VMware to gag, creating headaches for our internal IT department.
So what was the solution?
Everyone got a Mac.
Not just any silly Mac. The new Mac Pros. 8-core. 16 gigs of RAM.
Now you may ask “Nick, why on earth would you need that much horsepower? Rendering video? Some super awesome scientific application?”
No.
I look at Java code all day. Need I say more?
Seriously, between running Eclipse, VMware, and four Tomcat servlet containers, I am very happy to have 16 gigs of RAM.
But the best part about the Mac? The keyboard.
I don’t know how to describe my fascination with it. The aluminum is beautiful. The keys look like cheap plastic, but they are perfectly slick. No need to press hard, making it easy for me to type fast.
Typing on its low profile almost makes it seem like I’m gently drumming my fingers on the desk.
Yeah, the ridiculously priced Optimus Maximus is all the rage today, but the Apple keyboard simplicity reminds me of the old school clickity IBM M keyboards.
After a couple weeks of using the Apple keyboard at work, I decided to get one for my home desktop. It worked pretty well out of the box, except some of the function keys required pressing the Fn button simultaneously.
Of course, the Ubuntu wiki came to the rescue and had a fix.
Jim, Josh, and I did Ubuntu Podcast #4 from the IBM offices where we will be holding Atlanta Linux Fest 2008 (site is under construction). We covered some of the plans for demos, and some latest happenings around the Ubuntu community.
There will video streams from Argentina at DebConf8. Two will be streaming live talks, one will do replays.
Check it out here: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf8/Streams
Over the last couple of months, I’ve visited quite a few big chain bookstores in Wichita, Atlanta, and Orlando.
I see a disturbing trend.
The big soft comfortable chairs are disappearing.
Thats not completely true. There are still a few around the magazine sections, but none in the rest of the stores.
Well, except within the in-house Starbucks, Seattle Coffee or whatever.
Is this is a business decision? I should have asked a clerk. Maybe they don’t want people coming in, sitting down, reading, and then leaving. Instead, people will stroll through the stores, make a quick decision to purchase since there is no way to spend any significant time with the books, and leave.
Or maybe its to steer customers to the coffeeshop, where the bookstore surely gets a kickback.
Too disturbing for me.
The Crackberry Whores, originally uploaded by boredandblogging.
Sitting at a cigar store, enjoying a stogie, just not enough for the guys.
Bread aisle is practically empty at a busy local grocery store on a Sunday afternoon.
Ubuntu Podcast #3 is out. This time its just me, since Josh is on vacation. Some highlights, Mark Shuttleworth throws the gauntlet on Linux desktop, Ultamatix, Launchpad 2.0, and Ardour.
You can view the video or just listen to the audio.
