Open Source is totally awesome

[paulhope]

So, I recently got a new laptop for work. It's a suped up Lenovo Thinkpad. I dumped the copy of Windows XP that came with it and am running Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex." (Ubuntu is one of the more popular flavors of Linux, known for its usability

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[eliwrites]

"It carries a completely different phenomenology of consumption than proprietary software."

That's a beautiful sentence.

[paulhope]

Sometimes I can't tell when you're kidding, Eli :)

[erichowens]

When I was in Budapest, a foolish action on my part in the first few weeks led to a stranger walking off with my laptop. A week or two later a new one arrived in the mail from the States, nicer than anything I could've hoped to have bought in Hungary