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- The best Linux distro for a new breed of PCs
- Clearly, small, low-powered laptops are here to stay, with the advent of Intel's Atom platform and the success of systems like the Asus Eee. Classmates are coming to a little lap near you, OLPC America is hard at work, and vendors should be jumping on the Atom bandwagon shortly....
- Tags: PC, One Laptop Per Child Project, Classmates, *buntu, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
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- Ubuntu's "plateau" = Good news for education
- Ubuntu's "plateau" = Good news for educationI agreeI read the other article and it seems that when he wants updates he wants revolutionary new features. It's good to have fancy effects and such but Ubuntu already has those. What I see that their doing is trying to define Ubuntu. Trying...
- Tags: Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2009-03-02
- Ubuntu's "plateau" = Good news for education
- Adrian Kingsley-Hughes wrote a piece Monday on whether Ubuntu had plateaued, essentially cranking out service packs on their 6 month release schedule. What I want to know, though, is why this is a bad thing? What this means is that Ubuntu has reached an incredible state...
- Tags: Education, Ubuntu, Linux, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- To Linux or not to Linux?
- To Linux or not to Linux?A safe choiceAnd, more importantly, a good choice for your users' needs. Which they will agree with soon enough.Ubuntu for the kidsIncreasingly open source free software is making in roads in the schools. Not just because it's free but because it works. In my child's...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, tiebreaker, Remember IT, Linux
- Discussion threads 2009-02-19
- To Linux or not to Linux?
- One request that actually made it past the budget gods for FY10 was 60 convertible Classmate PCs (30 for each of two schools). These will replace aging stationary labs in the schools, freeing up needed space and allowing for redeployment of the older computers for individual classroom and student...
- Tags: Edubuntu, Teacher, Linux, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Firewalls, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Networking, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-02-18
- "It's too small, it's too slow, and the keyboard's dumb"...Or is it?
- So says my oldest son after a day of doing homework and socializing online with the Acer Aspire One. I was really hoping that he'd get used to it. I'm almost as speedy on it now as I am on a full-sized keyboard and my 6-year old prefers...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, Netbook, Keyboards, Notebooks, Hardware, Peripherals, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-01-11
- Got Debian running, too
- It's not surprising that I managed to get Debian Linux running on the orange iMac I blogged about the other day. Since *buntu is based on Debian, this would seem to be a no-brainer. However, what is of note is the easy text-based install (very similar to Ubuntu's...
- Tags: Debian, Nautilus, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- New call for open source device drivers
- New call for open source device driversHow about Linux ease of use?I am a MS user based on job and personal prefernces for my OS. I have installed Ubuntu on a home computer, as well as gentoo on another. What strikes me as how un-friendly the OS is...
- Tags: Linux, ease of use, open source device driver, GUI-driven, YaST, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Should Sugar be put out to pasture?
- A reader of the blog I posted yesterday ("Who decides which OS makes it onto an OLPC?") raised some interesting objections to the Sugar user interface originally developed for the OLPC XO laptop. While I'm not sure I entirely agree with him, it does give some food...
- Tags: Operating System, Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- How does OpenSolaris fare for Ed Tech?
- In a nutshell, just fine. It's Unix, it's stable, it's robust, it's free, and includes a solid repository of free software. The real question is, does it have a place in Ed Tech? It's certainly pretty, but it's running Gnome and looks an awful lot...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Linux Distribution, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- "Don't tell them that I love it"
- "Don't tell them that I love it"Skills cost moneyAll of this is predicated on one thing: Computers exist to get something else done.That could be me chatting with a friend, writing a document, or editing a photo. We are not interested in the system that gets that job done, we...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, job, Autodesk Inc., Hardy
- Discussion threads 2008-04-29
- "Don't tell them that I love it"
- These were my son's words after living with Ubuntu 8.04 on his laptop for a day. Interestingly, he said, "I never loved Windows either, but it always worked for me." Of his fresh installation sans a Windows XP virtual machine, he noted that drastic improvements in boot and...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Training, Ubuntu 8.04, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- My Singularity wish list
- At home and in test/specialty labs in my school I'm running everything from flavors of *buntu and Mandrake Linux to OS X. However, most of my clients are running Windows, whether accessing Server 2003 via thin clients or as standalone XP and Vista machines. Sure, OS X is...
- Tags: Singularity OS, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Open Source, UNIX, Software, Emerging Technologies, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- Realistically deploying Edubuntu
- I'm on an Edubuntu users mailing list where, more often than not, veteran users can answer questions for new users. I usually give it a quick skim for any new features or fixes and then leave it to accumulate like so many other pieces of information in my Gmail...
- Tags: Thin Client, Video Editing, Server, Video, RAM, Thin Clients, Corporate Communications, Hardware, Marketing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-01-10
- My New Year's resolutions
- I'll be back to regular postings on Wednesday now that the holidays are almost over, the in-laws are back home, and the new X-Box 360 has lost just a tiny bit of its original addicting novelty. However, for today, I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Resolution, Professional Development, 64-Bit, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, Network Technology, Career, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Networking, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-12-31
- Desktop Linux most popular topic of 2007
- Desktop Linux most popular topic of 2007How can MS strike back?The interesting question has to be "How would MS deal with serious interest in Linux by its OEMs?" Up to now, that has not even been a concern since Desktop Linux still is not at a point where it...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux, desktop Linux, desktop, Ubuntu
- Discussion threads 2007-12-18
- Mandriva...Not just for Classmates
- As I've been poking around with Mandriva Linux for the last week or so (preparing to install it on a Classmate and researching prior to my interview with François Bancilhon), I've been impressed with it's apparent ease of use, quick installs, and out-of-the-box feature set. When a student came...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Mandriva, Chipsets, Open Source, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Leopard and Vista - More alike than you might think
- Leopard and Vista - More alike than you might thinkGood question"What are baked in vulnerabilities ?? Sounds likesomeone was cooking during the coding of the OS's"Good question - what in the world is a "baked in vulnerability"??Exactly!"I think the Linux model of lots of incremental releases rather than the Big...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Consumer electronics, Leopard, Microsoft Windows Vista, Linux, operating system, vulnerability
- Discussion threads 2007-11-06
- OpenSUSE beats Ubuntu to the punch
- OpenSUSE beats Ubuntu to the punchAdditional benefitsOpenSuSE is the only 'Microsoft certified Linux', even better;)False comparison but good reviewThe title "OpenSUSE beats Ubuntu to the punch" implies that the two distro vendors were racing to release the same capability, and OpenSUSE got their first. That's silly, of course -...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Novell OpenSuse, Novell Inc., Linux, Ubuntu, WARNING LABEL
- Discussion threads 2007-10-05
- Edubuntu to the rescue again
- I finally had a chance to meet with our new librarian today. After being without an actual librarian for so long, it was incredibly cool to talk with someone who knew something more about academic research than how to Google. She even has quite a vision for how...
- Tags: Open Source, Server, Librarian, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2007-09-05
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