Most of my blog posts for the last month or so have been about Ubuntu, and I plan for this to be so for some time to come.
This is the first of what I call an “occasional series” of posts within these posts.
This series will be about why I take such interest in [...]
Daily Archives: September 15th, 2007
Why Ubuntu? Let me count the ways
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I write this blog using the WordPress blogging software as made available at no charge by the nice folks at wordpress.com. One of the features provided by WordPress is what they call the “Referrers,” which is described as follows, “People clicked links from these pages to get to your blog.” They provide the URL [...]
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Ubuntu comes knocking on Oracle’s door – vnunet.com
Knock, knock. Who’s there? U. You who? Ubuntu! Ubuntu is for you, Larry.
(tags: open-source ubuntu)
Low-cost Linux revives IBM mainframe (again)
Linux goes mainstream on the mainframe. Next stop, main street.
(tags: open-source linux ibm
On installing and configuring Sun’s Open-Source Java implementation on Ubuntu Linux
I’ve written a series of posts recently on uploading photos to Flickr. When I tried to use a tool to help do that on Ubuntu Linux I wound up having to install a Sun implementation of Java; see my post How to install a specific version of Java on Ubuntu.
I said how during the [...]

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