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We recorded the podcast from the IBM conference center in Atlanta on 8/9/2008. Jim, Josh, and Nick discuss the upcoming Atlanta Linux Fest 2008 as well as what’s new in the Ubuntu community. There is a high res .avi download encoded in xvid, as well as the streaming flash, .mp3 and .ogg audio formats. I will try to post a lower resolution video for those with lower bandwidth, but I wanted to get this out. Show Notes
- Atlanta Linux Fest plans
- Multimedia on Linux
- Dual-Boot your College PC and make it more useful!
- Gaming
- Symphony
- Lunch: Pizza
- Hands-on:
- breakout sessions
- one-on-one trouble shooting.
- Ubuntu on subnotebooks
- At OSCON, Canonical had Ubuntu running on Atom-based subnotebook.
- Atom is Intel's line of CPUs for ultra-mobile PCs, smart phones.
- The CPUs are smaller than a penny.
- Notebooks ran Ubuntu Netbook Remix
- Touchscreens are becoming prevalent, so the finger-friendly UIs will be interesting
- At OSCON, Canonical had Ubuntu running on Atom-based subnotebook.
- IBM partnering with Canonical (see here and here) to make IBM Open Collaboration Client Solution (OCCS) availabe the repos.
- Notes is their email platform
- Smyphony is a fork of Open Office.
- Alfresco - enterprise content management system being put into partner repos. 100% open source.
- There are two editions: Alfresco Enterprise Edition and Alfresco Labs
- The repos will have Alfresco Labs, which is the bleeding edge, GPL
- Alfresco EE is certified on various systems, has professional support, partners and consultants can provide services, subscription service
- Ubuntu 8.04 wins Best Desktop Solution at Linux World
- Ubuntu restaurant
- vegetables only restaurant in California.
- Website features a video interview with Nelson Mandela and has an Ubuntu logo on it.
- The video is also included in the Examples folder of all Ubuntu desktop installations
- Ubuntu has become "noobified"? It's a dated article, but still relevant.
- Somehow, being easy to use is bad: "but Ubuntu has become so watered down as a Linux distribution that I can only classify it as having been completely n00bified"
- He is used to Fedora: " I use it 99% of the time while at the University (the other 1% is with Windows), and have had a Fedora Linux server sitting in my office for three and a half years."
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