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!):
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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?
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.
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.
