Dell conquers Europe with its Ubuntu netbooks, enters the Netherlands

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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Ubuntu on national television

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... *sigh*

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 real truth about the Digg front page

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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What's up with American arrogance? Views from a foreigner

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 internet is breaking

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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Why Linux Desktop Fragmentation is a Good Thing™

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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Ubuntu is the generic Linux distro, so what?

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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You use Ubuntu, not Linux

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's big problem

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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