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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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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

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

Slow downloads in Linux? IPv6 may be to blame

Slow downloads in Linux? IPv6 may be to blameNo speed boost in UbuntuI applied your tip about Firefox, in Ubuntu 7.04. I used a page timer fasterfox to measure speed differences. However, there were no significant differences: some of the test pages loaded a little faster, and some even a...

Tags: Operating systems, NETWORKING, OPEN SOURCE, IPv6, Linux, Ubuntu, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-07-31

OpenSUSE 10.3 may not include LTSP support

OpenSUSE 10.3 may not include LTSP supportIt's a pity......that Novell made that decision. Although I'm a big Ubuntu fan myself, I think that healthy competition is always preferable.The more Linux distro's strive for perfection, also in education, the better. Even if it's a slightly suspect distro like openSUSE (patent deal...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Tools & Techniques, LTSP, distro, Novell OpenSuse

Discussion threads 2007-07-19

OpenSUSE 10.3 may not include LTSP support

In a recent post I reported that OpenSUSE would be adding LTSP support to compete with Edubuntu in their upcoming 10.3 release, along with several other educational tools in a "SLEDucator CD". I must admit that I was pretty excited. My experiences with Edubuntu and *buntu have been...

Tags: OpenSUSE and Ed Tech, Open Source, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-19

What's the point of Gobuntu?

What's the point of Gobuntu?DebianKeep in mind that Ubuntu is based on Debian, which is the all-the-way-to-the-limit [i]software libre[/i]-only distribution. Reading between the lines, Shuttleworth has been catching flack from the hard-core Debian faithful and decided to give them what they've been asking for: a pure-[i]libre[/i] version of Ubuntu.Useful?...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Sort-of, Gobuntu, software, Ubuntu, Debian, Apple Mac OS X

Discussion threads 2007-07-12

Why do I only get flamed when I support Microsoft?

A recent post in Information Week asked a similar question: Why Doesn't Microsoft Have a Cult Religion? It appeared on Digg and Ars with an even catchier tagline: "A good question: Where ARE the Microsoft fanboys?" A whole lot of us use it, many even with a great...

Tags: Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-15

Red Hat tries new desktop Linux angle

Red Hat tries new desktop Linux angleRed Hat tries new desktop Linux angleWow, the same company that said linux is not ready for the desktop is now trying to put linux on the desktop. That is rather funny. Try as you may but it will never happen. Too...

Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, desktop, Red Hat Inc., Ubuntu, Linux, desktop Linux

Discussion threads 2007-05-09