Ubuntu 9.04 booting in 17.5 seconds, according to MattCutts

According to Matt Cutts at Google Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope is booting in 17.5 seconds (from pressing power to Firefox excluding 5 seconds for BIOS display on a Thinkpad) with SSD hard-drive Intel X25-E Extreme. Look at his live documentation at YouTube:

And if you let Windows 7 compete with Jaunty Jackalope Ubuntu 9.04 (this video is not from Matt Cutts!):

Laptop with Linux Ubuntu for 198 USD (1.300 SEK)

This autumn Acer India launched a laptop with Linux for just about 19.999 Indian Rupies (3.300 swedish crowns). Now Wal-Mart is selling a laptop from Everex with Linux UBuntu as OS and upstart Via as processor. The desktop environment will not be KDE or Gnome but suprisingly Enlightenment, because it requires minimal hardware resources for its interface. The cost will be 198 USD = 1.300 SEK.

No to pre-loaded windows in France

Channel Register reports a french man was delivered an Acer laptop with pre-loaded windows and refused to pay for that OS. Now he won the lawsuit in French court. Yesterday I was checking upp Dell.se to look for pre-loaded Linux (Ubuntu) as they offer it in US for their customers. No Linux and I had to choose either Windows XP or Windows vista. When will their be a lawsuit for this in Sweden?

Ubuntu 7.04 released yesterday

Yesterday Ubuntu 7.04 at last was released. Read this press release. I’m on a travel to Vienna and just know visting University medical library in Vienna. More on this travel later on.

Linux Ubuntu upgrade Feisty Fawn soon in final release

Don’t forget the final release of the Linux Ubuntu upgrade Feisty Fawn 19th of April. If you still have Dapper Drake or Edgy Eft, here’s an installation guide to Feisty Fawn.

Blog on Linux for librarians

As you may have discovered I advocate the use of open source and Linux. Through Liszen, a Google co-op search engine searching library blogs, I found a blog with “…mission to introduce the value, utility, and versatility of Linux and open source software to library staff and administrators worldwide”. The blog is called Linuxlibrarian but I don’t find any information about the blogger.

Is Linux Unix?

“The differences between Unix and Linux is bigger than the similarities”

Writes Stefan Andersson from Redbridge in an article debate in swedish mag Computer Sweden from 13 December issue 126 2006.

“The Linux kernel is owned by a foundation, while the licenses of unix was soU and bought as any other product”.

“If a customer wanted to shift system 10 years ago it was an enormous project demanding new hardware, new operating system and new programs. The changed supplier could claimthat all software, for example clients, should be removed”.

“Today if the customer uses linux that shift is done easily because it’s possible to reuse hardware and most of all programs are binary compatible”.

“Customers have access to the open source and have been able to educate their own employees and develop the operating system”.

And remember “GNU’s not unix!” If you want to now more about the history of Unix and Linux I recommend the following two books: Rebel Code by Glyn Moody and The Unix philosophyMike Gancarz.

Skanska have plans for Linux on clients

According to Computer Sweden 6 december 2006 Skanska is planning to use Linux on desktops at 700 construction site. Construction workers will have individual e-mail accounts and possibilty to surf the Internet. Then it also will be possible to do time reports in the enterprise system. The project manager thinks the education of the construction workers will not be that expensive. Instead Skanska will save a lot of money on not buying windows licenses. My question is: will they use Linux Ubuntu?

New version of library system Koha

Version 2.2.6 of library system Koha has been released. Koha is build upon LAMP ( (Linux, Apache, MySQL, P for PHP). Thanks for attention, Christina Svala at Uppsala university library.

Linux Ubuntu top ranked at Distrowatch

Distrowatch counts the average number of hits per day at each linux distro site and Linux Ubuntu is in top. The average hits (unique IP addresses each day) for the last 6 months are for the top five:

1. Linux Ubuntu 2.620 hits.
2. OpenSUSE 1.991
3. Fedora 1.262
4. MEPIS 1.073
5. Mandriva 946

The south african founder of Linux Ubuntu Mark Shuttleworth has his own blog called “Here be dragons” (beside of his name as the brand) and the Shuttleworth biography is interesting to read.

For example Mark founded the Ubuntu project in early 2004, which aims to produce a high quality desktop software environment that is freely available all over the world. He also flew in space in April 2002, as a cosmonaut member of the crew of Soyuz mission TM34 to the International Space Station. He likes the african bush and russian saunas both not public speaking and running.

From Windows to Linux Ubuntu

During the EAHIL conference in Cluj I talked to a romanian guy who run that company that fixed the wireless connection during the conference. He had a mac and that’s why I began to talk with him. He said that Mac is just wonderful, it never chrases and he meant never. Same with Linux. I heard these stories from many computer nerds so I’m nearly sick of it, though I believe the most of their successful scenarios with Mac, Linux even Unix.

I told him about that early 90’s I used Mac (Powerbook 100) when I was working as a freelance journalist and studying to librarian. How I switched to PC when getting that job at Umeå university library 1994. How I tried to install Red Hat (Linux) around 2000 but my screen couldn’t show all buttons and since then I never tried. I’m no Linux nerd but I think as a nevereveruser of Linux I know a lot of it by reading computermags. This summer I had to reinstall my Windows XP on my Dell Inspiron laptop after 3 years of hard use it was just a mess. After having some problem with had.dll file I just put my laptop aside and used my work HP laptop during the conference in Cluj.

Back home during a day travel to Stockholm I watched that LInux format special issue with Ubuntu CD:s. Maybe I should give it a try? Not bothering with XP anymore? I’m to tired to download an Ubuntu ISO from the internet and burn it on CD? I bought it and he first installation failed because of the partition function. Second time all went well and after installation and opening Firefox: Eureka! There is internet!! Without having to reconfigure my wireless internet I’m out there. Watch out for another Linux librarian geek ;-)

I still have XP on my job and on my home stationary, so I now got the oppurtunity to compare pro’s and con’s against LInux distro Ubuntu.