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Obama Ubuntu

linux, obama, planetubuntu, ubuntu — Tags: , , , , — boredandblogging @ 9:40 am

People from the Obama campaign have said that they use Ubuntu 8.04. It seems to be used nationally.

Does anyone know any more about the use of Ubuntu by the Obama campaign and can provide us with more details?

Feel free to leave a comment here or drop me an email at nali -SPAMREMOVE - @ubuntu.com.

Obama Ubuntu

Obama Ubuntu

Update: There might be some questions of validity here, but it really wouldn’t make sense to doctor pictures, IMO.


37 Comments »

  1. I was phonebanking yesterday in Durham, NC for Obama and they had an Ubuntu desktop there as well. So there’s one data point for you.

    Comment by Anonymous — October 21, 2008 @ 10:26 am
  2. Yea, my buddy works at the headquarters. They use it there, and he says they use it nationwide.

    Comment by lunarcloud — October 21, 2008 @ 10:47 am
  3. Word and Excel icons… hmpf :/

    Comment by Miles — October 21, 2008 @ 10:47 am
  4. We just confirmed it is a fake. They are running Windows over there as I work less than 2 blocks away from his headquarters here in Chicago.

    Comment by nixternal — October 21, 2008 @ 10:49 am
  5. Sorry but running Word, Excel and Firefox… Doubt they are running Ubuntu :0

    Comment by Jonathan — October 21, 2008 @ 11:08 am
  6. alrighty, doubled back to the new headquarters location on Michigan Ave. and spoke with an insider, who is one of my best friends. All “Official” machines at that location are Dells. Laptops are Dell Latitude D830’s running Windows and their desktops are Dell as well with very nice widescreen LCDs also running Windows. My buddy who is a Debian Linux buff is running Windows (hahahahaha, he curses Windows so bad, but they use AD and Exchange and said Linux with that combination is a headache). There are however some volunteers who are local university students that do run Linux, and being Chicago he said most of them are either Gentoo or Ubuntu flavored.

    I directed him to this blog post and he said more than likely those images are either fake, or not in their headquarters at all but possibly in a satellite location.

    I can confirm their webservers are Linux. GO DADDY!!!

    Comment by nixternal — October 21, 2008 @ 11:11 am
  7. @Jonathan - Firefox comes pre-installed in Ubuntu. As for word and excel, a quick look on winehq.com shows that MS Office will install and run in both Hardy and Intrepid. So this is very possible.

    Comment by Ki77erB — October 21, 2008 @ 11:14 am
  8. Una razón más para apoyar a Obama [ENG]…

    Ubuntu también está presente en las elecciones de EEUU…

    Trackback by meneame.net — October 21, 2008 @ 11:19 am
  9. Yes, this is the OBAMANIA!

    Comment by Eduardomo — October 21, 2008 @ 11:26 am
  10. I am looking for some idea and stumble upon your posting :) decide to wish you Thanks. Eugene

    Comment by Eugene — October 21, 2008 @ 11:59 am
  11. When I saw Nader speak, I asked him if he was familiar with Linux and the free software movement. He told me that in his offices they only use Linux with free software, and was a staunch advocate of IP changes.

    Comment by Maxo — October 21, 2008 @ 12:27 pm
  12. Didn’t the Democratic Party site require Silverlight?

    Comment by Zeeng — October 21, 2008 @ 1:00 pm
  13. That is definitely linux on that desktop, with one fugly theme (to make it easier for users to think they are using the same thing as at home?). I think it could easily be Ubuntu with Office on it running through Wine or Crossover or one of the the other ones. Its not really possible to customize Windows *that* much, so it must be.

    Comment by Nate — October 21, 2008 @ 3:02 pm
  14. I think the top one is probably linux, since it has a gnome login screen, and the mouse is small and black.

    The bottom one is definitively windows. Yes, it is possible to customize (xp) windows that much, although i consider it a waste of time.

    Comment by Andrew — October 21, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
  15. The bottom one is ubuntu too, look at the logout icon, the date format, the big icons (In Windows it is very hard to get the icons that big) and the customized button (to hard to do in Windows).
    I think they use ooo.org, because the named the icons to general names (like Wordprocessor) and used custom icons, so Windows users would recognize them.

    Comment by ikkefc3 — October 21, 2008 @ 4:14 pm
  16. Why does the top picture look very much like a computer shop in the background?

    Comment by paul — October 21, 2008 @ 11:37 pm
  17. Gnome log-in … but KDE desktop?

    And Linux can run microsoft office with Codeweavers “crossover linux”

    http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxlinux/

    Comment by Bob — October 21, 2008 @ 11:42 pm
  18. The images posted here are definitely not from the main chicago hq, all the monitors are dells there.

    Comment by Alex — October 21, 2008 @ 11:49 pm
  19. Those icons are not MS Office or via Crossover or Wine etc… look at the text under the icons “Spreadsheet” rather than “MS Excel” and “Word Processor” rather than “MS Word”. I’m guessing it’s Open Office.
    On the other hand, from those screenshots, I couldn’t tell if it were Ubuntu, another linux distribution, BSD or some other OS.

    Comment by Chad — October 22, 2008 @ 12:50 am
  20. Rather lame

    “go Obama”

    Comment by matelot — October 22, 2008 @ 1:21 am
  21. That ’start’ button: change :D :D

    Oh, wasn’t it Obama’s running mate that tried to push a law which would forbid any software that was not a MSFT product? So their office running Ubuntu sounds a bit odd to me.

    Comment by ivo — October 22, 2008 @ 3:24 am
  22. Obama use Ubuntu ? That is great. I mean McCain use Windows Vista Home Basic :) and notepad :)) LOL Go Obama go.

    Comment by Piotr Szymczak — October 22, 2008 @ 8:15 am
  23. Ubuntu and Obama? A wonderful match, I get a warm fuzzy feeling about that. But unfortunately I think they would be running Microsoft. Not good.
    Go Ubuntu go.
    Go Obama go.

    Comment by Zac — October 22, 2008 @ 10:22 am
  24. This is not fake. I volunteered at the campaign headquarters in Lakewood, CO and used this Obama themed Ubuntu. I’ll try to get some video by the weekend.

    Comment by Chris Menning — October 22, 2008 @ 9:42 pm
  25. [...] Obama Ubuntu People from the Obama campaign have said that they use Ubuntu 8.04. It seems to be used nationally. [...]

  26. I think is a fake. BUT is not microsoft office installed. if you read it says spreadsheet and word proccesor, under the incons. Not microsoft word and microsoft excell. Yo can change the icons in linux. They do a lot for the people find their programs.

    Comment by gap — October 23, 2008 @ 8:08 am
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  28. Well, if it makes you feel any better, I work for fox news and most people here use ubuntu, there are some exceptions on a mac, but there are very few windows computers around here. ubuntu is the most popular by far. When I was meeting with some mccain campaigners, they were running ubuntu as well, so at the very least, on the other side of the ticket, they support ubuntu. Hell, Fox News even uses Ubuntu on its web servers.

    Comment by james — October 25, 2008 @ 4:47 pm
  29. To james

    Fox News web server does not appear to be running on Ubuntu.

    Both http://www.foxnews.com and http://elections.foxnews.com/ seem to run on Red Hat, albeit slightly different Apache versions.

    Comment by Khalid — October 26, 2008 @ 6:53 pm
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  31. Well, I ordered it already (nice joke). ;-)

    Comment by helmeloh — October 27, 2008 @ 12:21 am
  32. The Word and Excel Icons, are probably link to open office. note it says “word Processor” and not “word”. They probably just copied the icons to make it more familiar. McCain uses Windows 3.1

    Comment by Max — October 27, 2008 @ 9:56 pm
  33. So the image with a GDM login window is a fake. How becoming of Linux users. Why not remove it and close the issue?

    Comment by mike — October 29, 2008 @ 8:04 pm
  34. I noticed that mccain call center uses asus eee pc’s running linux. As for obama, I have no clue. If biden supports MS……. yikes!

    Comment by veronica — November 2, 2008 @ 11:32 am
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