Comments on: Adventures in open source land http://davepress.net/2010/03/08/adventures-in-open-source-land/ Open government and everything else Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:54:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lesley Thomson http://davepress.net/2010/03/08/adventures-in-open-source-land/comment-page-1/#comment-6524 Lesley Thomson Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:12:03 +0000 http://davepress.net/?p=3289#comment-6524 My t'other half is a big fan of Ubuntu. My mum on the other hand swears by Mint http://www.linuxmint.com/ - which she has installed successfully on all manner of desktops, laptops and netbooks. Not sure which of them is geekier, but neither has yet persuaded me away from Windoze! My t’other half is a big fan of Ubuntu. My mum on the other hand swears by Mint http://www.linuxmint.com/ – which she has installed successfully on all manner of desktops, laptops and netbooks. Not sure which of them is geekier, but neither has yet persuaded me away from Windoze!

]]> By: davebriggs (Dave Briggs) http://davepress.net/2010/03/08/adventures-in-open-source-land/comment-page-1/#comment-6518 davebriggs (Dave Briggs) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:07:20 +0000 http://davepress.net/?p=3289#comment-6518 <strong>Twitter Comment</strong> <a href="http://twitter.com/davebriggs" title="Twitter Comment" rel="nofollow"> <div class="ccimg1" title="davebriggs (Dave Briggs)" style="float:left;margin-right:10px;padding:0;width:60px;height:60px;"> <img name="cc_image" title="davebriggs (Dave Briggs)" style="float:left;margin-right:10px;padding:0;width:50px;height:50px;" src="http://purl.org/net/spiurl/davebriggs"> </div> </a> Compare this http://bit.ly/9z8frO to this [link to post]<br /><br /> - <a href="http://chatcatcher.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Posted using Chat Catcher</a> Twitter Comment


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]]> By: Andy http://davepress.net/2010/03/08/adventures-in-open-source-land/comment-page-1/#comment-6516 Andy Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:03:43 +0000 http://davepress.net/?p=3289#comment-6516 Glad to hear you enjoyed Ubuntu! I think everyone should at least have a go with Linux -- not having to suffer a world full of viruses with Windows is a great feeling! You might like to try gwibber instead of tweetdeck (it doesn't need anything dodgey like Adobe Air, and actually there are several twitter clients to choose from in the Ubuntu Software Centre). In the next release of Ubuntu gwibber will be installed by default. Happy Ubuntu-ing! Glad to hear you enjoyed Ubuntu! I think everyone should at least have a go with Linux — not having to suffer a world full of viruses with Windows is a great feeling!

You might like to try gwibber instead of tweetdeck (it doesn’t need anything dodgey like Adobe Air, and actually there are several twitter clients to choose from in the Ubuntu Software Centre).
In the next release of Ubuntu gwibber will be installed by default.

Happy Ubuntu-ing!

]]> By: Andrew Beeken http://davepress.net/2010/03/08/adventures-in-open-source-land/comment-page-1/#comment-6507 Andrew Beeken Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:58:06 +0000 http://davepress.net/?p=3289#comment-6507 Nice one Dave! I did this with my old laptop which seemed to be broken. Turns out it had just stopped liking Vista and when Ubuntu worked on it I was exctatic and it's now the machine I take with me to govcamps and when I'm filming. I do try to ensure I only use it to work on remote copies of files though, never treating it as my primary machine. Nice one Dave! I did this with my old laptop which seemed to be broken. Turns out it had just stopped liking Vista and when Ubuntu worked on it I was exctatic and it’s now the machine I take with me to govcamps and when I’m filming. I do try to ensure I only use it to work on remote copies of files though, never treating it as my primary machine.

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