With their new Latitude 2100 laptops, Dell is finally allowing Dutch consumers to pick Ubuntu as pre-installed operating system for their netbooks. Update: And it looks like Belgian customers can enjoy this deal too.
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Yesterday I happened to see a fragment of a television show that consists of satirical sketches that take place in an office building. Being the geek that I am, something struck me on the screen of one of the office workers: Ubuntu.
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The year of the Linux desktop has finally come! Really, this time. At least, that's what Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, says. Give me a break. Read the article. Not one of the arguments is bound to this year. No concrete dates, no concrete events.
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The article Inconvenient Truths of the Digg Front Page gives the impression that getting on the Digg homepage is a matter of pulling the right levers. It's not.
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Just now I was watching the June 17 episode of the Colbert Report. The first guest was Neal Katyal who was lead counsel in the case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld as "the little guy facing the state". Katyal said (quote);
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The featured article of Thursday May 18 2006's Wall Street Journal Online, "The Web's Worst New Idea", calls into question the validity of the debate about Net Neutrality.
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Every now and then you'll come across someone arguing that, instead of having several different desktop environments (Xfce, GNOME, KDE), their respective developers should team up to create The Perfect DE.
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You'd have to be a great liar to deny that Ubuntu is an extremely popular Linux distribution. So popular, in fact, that people new to Ubuntu tend to use it's name interchangeably with Linux. Is this a problem? No.
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For a while I've been meaning to write this, and the article "there's more to Linux than Ubuntu" finally made me do it.
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Ubuntu produces lots of wonderful new innovations with each new release - the Restricted Drivers Manager, the Screens and Graphics application, Add/Remove...
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Bubba is several meanings. Bill Clinton was nicknamed Bubba. Rather like a bull in a china shop.
Then there is another Bubba. This bubba should be kept on a L-E-A-S-H.
Sometimes, we are better off if bubba is kept in a cage. Sometimes, someone puts a computer in the cage with bubba....and the rest is history.Bubba has many personalities and goes by many names. Many of which can be found on Bubba's friends list. Some can even be brand new and not on the list.
I'm sure you have bubbas in The Netherlands. What do you call them?
We have multiple news channels that are 24 hours a day. Discussion of internal European issues are extremely rare.
Take care.
I take it you have given up on the article.
Never fear the battle rages on.Until now, I bet you wondered why we have guns in the U.S. It's hard to keep bubba on the leash, without them.
But they don't seem to work over the internet. Sure do have to replace a lot of monitors though. And that's the flaw of the internet. I guess you have your Bubbas better trained than we.
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