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A quartet of Ubuntu links

Posted by Peng on 30 April 2008

In the spirit of Nick Ali and Jeff Waugh’s daily Planet Ubuntu posts of links they’ve discovered in their surfing, I just went through my RSS feeds for the morning and have four links that I simply have to pass along. Read the rest of this entry »

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A Mac OSX user tries Ubuntu

Posted by Peng on 22 April 2008

While catching up on the posts on Planet Ubuntu I came across an interesting link from Nick Ali, “An Apple User Tries Ubuntu.” What I wasn’t prepared for is how happy this Mac guy was with Ubuntu, and I’d be willing to bet he doesn’t even know about Mac4Lin yet. Read the rest of this entry »

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OSX Kitty wants an upgrade

Posted by Peng on 21 April 2008

I saw this on my favorite lolcat site and simply had to share it with y’all.

humorous pictures
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Got iTunes for Windows? You might have Safari now, too

Posted by Nanci Barthelmess on 21 March 2008

[Updated to include a link on another related piece from Tom Krazit at Cnet. - Nanci]

Yesterday Apple used it’s Software Update system to send out updates to iTunes, and it offers to upgrade your Safari, Apple’s web browser, even if you don’t have it installed already. Read the rest of this entry »

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Why use Linux anyway?

Posted by Nanci Barthelmess on 2 February 2008

There’s a thread in the Ubuntu Forums about cool things you can do in Linux that you can’t do in Windows or Mac OSX and Matthew Helmke posted a great list of things on Plant Ubuntu. I even found a couple of things I didn’t even know I could do. Read the rest of this entry »

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