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About Ubuntu

Ubuntu Linux is styled as “Linux for Human Beings”, an appropriate description given its feel-good photography, earthy color schemes, and pseudo-primitive “heritage.” It all works quite well and bespeaks both the importance of unified design branding across all media and of keeping your targeting focused.

It’s also really cool.

Ubuntu on an iBook

Hoary

As of this writing, my experience with Ubuntu has been limited to research and familiarization — last year, however, I did experiment with Ubuntu (Hoary) on an iBook with more or less success. Read Ubuntu (Hoary) Linux on an iBook.

Dapper

Just this week (2006/08) I’ve begun my Dapper experiments which, although not exactly successful, is a good exercise: Attempting to install Ubuntu Dapper on an iBook.

More Ubuntu experiments

That experimental effort continues this year (2006) with plans to convert some PowerPC G4 towers (currently running Mac OS X) into a Linux desktop and a Linux server, using Dapper Drake. Assuming things work out well, which I imagine they will, I will continue later in the year to transition over to Linux for a great deal of my development.

The gravitational pull of Linux

Submitted by Robert Daeley on Mon, 2008-05-05 14:00.

A pair of stories on /. today hold a particular fascination for me, particularly when taken together:

“Linux Desktop Distro Shootout”

“War Brewing on the Inexpensive Laptop Front”

They point to a pair of stories:

Infoweek: “Linux Shootout: 7 Desktop Distros Compared”.

We tested openSUSE, Ubuntu 8.04, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva Linux One, Fedora, SimplyMEPIS, and CentOS 5.1. All performed well, and each had at least one truly outstanding feature.

(At the moment, I am veering toward Kubuntu.)

And The Christian Science Monitor: “More computer brands chase the ‘$100 laptop’”.

Bye bye, bulk. New lines of tiny PCs fit both in your purse and into third-world classrooms.

Taken together, I can see my near-future computing needs handled, particularly on the writing front.

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links for 2007-07-01

Submitted by Robert Daeley on Sat, 2007-06-30 19:23.
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Blogging From Ubuntu Using Drivel

Submitted by Robert Daeley on Mon, 2007-01-08 08:35.

Via rootprompt.org comes this article by Ubuntu Geek, “Blogging From Ubuntu Using Drivel”. It does a good job covering the basics on installation and usage.

Drivel is a GNOME client for working with online journals, also known as weblogs or simply blogs. It retains a simple and elegant design while providing many powerful features.

Drivel Features

  • Support for LiveJournal, Blogger, MovableType, Advogato, and Atom journals (systems based off these are also supported, including WordPress and Drupal)
  • The ability to post, edit, delete, and view recent entries
  • Integrated spellchecking and HTML syntax highlighting
  • Offline composition and editing
  • Automatic recovery in the event of a crash
  • Journal system extensions, including LiveJournal security groups and MovableType categories

ELinks: my new favorite web browser

Submitted by Robert Daeley on Wed, 2006-09-27 08:47.

Something to be said for a text-based terminal web browser that can handle table layouts. It makes a great deal of the Intarweb usable again.

ELinks - Full-Featured Text WWW Browser

ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web (HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables, is highly customizable and can be extended via Lua or Guile scripts. It is very portable and runs on a variety of platforms. Check the about page for a more complete description….It originates from the Links project written by Mikulas Patocka, and it is currently maintained by Jonas Fonseca.

Also available via MacPorts.

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