The Ubuntu Massachusetts Local Community is planning to set up a booth at Anime Boston 2010. From the article:

So, what exactly will we be doing? We can approach this on several levels, starting with setting up a booth in the Dealers' Room of the convention. From here, we can distribute free copies of the Ubunchu Manga, Ubuntu LiveCDs, and ( Read more... )

It's that time again!

Ubuntu 9.10 is out! Throw it on your desktop computer, netbook, laptop, or server. Be a cool kid like me, minakokitty, orochiserge, sensitivinferno, and sofakingdustin. Also, both of my parents run it.

New stuff this time around:

• Faster boot time thanks to the Upstart program
• New "Software Center" replaces the Add/Remove Programs app
• Ubuntu One gives you your own personalized ( Read more... )

Be jubilant, computer jargonists, Ubuntu 9.04, "Jaunty Jackalope" just came out today!

• My mom runs Ubuntu
• My dad runs Ubuntu
• minakokitty runs Ubuntu
• orochiserge runs Ubuntu (how's that going, by the way? - we should hook up soon to see if the update includes anything for your graphics chipset)
• sofakingdustin has had it with Windows and its viruses and is making the jump tonight

Since I'm going to be on vacation, and hopefully nowhere near a computer next week, I wanted to announce to you nerds that the next version of Ubuntu, "Intrepid Ibix", will be out on October 30th.

For those of you who haven't given Ubuntu a shot, now is your chance. Do it for me. Free yourselves from the shackles of your Microsoft Windows ( Read more... )

I'm installing Ubuntu Hardy Heron and live blogging it.

Check out my progress.

Rejoice, computer aficionados! Ubuntu 7.10, the "Gutsy Gibbon", has been released today!

• It comes with Compiz Fusion installed by default
• X server will start no matter what - users uncomfortable with the shell will always have a graphical interface
• You can configure X server's settings with a GUI tool; no more editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf!
• You can ( Read more... )

Holy Crap!

Dell has decided to sell consumer PCs with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed!

"Today, we are excited to tell you that Dell will begin offering Canonical's latest version, Ubuntu 7.04, as an option on select Dell consumer models in the U.S. in the coming weeks," the company said in its announcement.

So my weekend came and went... 2 days were never shorter. I played like 2 hours of Paper Mario and did a ton of cleaning/throwing-away-shit of the old apartment, and the rest of the weekend disappeared.

I did, however, get to enjoy my newfound FiOS speeds when downloading copies of Ubuntu Linux at ~1950KB/s.

( ... but there were some problems with FiOS and other techy stuff... )

Well, Mr. Hong, my brother-from-another-mother: you and I have made it to ¼ of a century. Happy Birthday to us!

If you want a birthday present, Ubuntu Linux version 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) was released today :D. I'm already running it on my laptop.

I asked my mom for this FireFox hoodie from the Mozilla storeI hope this next year I can live out the ( Read more... )

So on a whim I decided that my HP Pavilion zv5260us notebook will no longer run WinXP pro. Thus began the mission to install Linux. Now, I have two other computers in the house set up as servers that run Ubuntu Linux (Technically, one runs Ubuntu, the other runs Kubuntu - Ubuntu with KDE as the desktop manager instead of the usual GNOME). I've ( Read more... )