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Jaunty Jackelope (Ubuntu 9.04) comes with an optional skin for netbooks called Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Here’s a nice review.

I’m not sure this is news. There has been a lot of information floating around the internet about how many governments and government agencies have switched to Linux to save money.
But this article does give you a nice bit of background about how the switch came about. It began with one person switching to Open [...]

I wanted to call everyone’s attention to System 76 - a company dedicated to open source software. They sell machines pre-loaded with open source software. Here’s a little blurb from their site.
System76 provides and supports Ubuntu pre-installed laptops, desktops, and servers with a commitment to the ideals of open source software. Our aim is to [...]

Story here.

Story over at the Open Source Initiative.

Linux Whiteboard is an application that let’s you turn any surface into an interactive touch screen. The most obvious application is that any surface can be turned into a Whiteboard!
Here’s a link to the packages for ubuntu
Here are a couple of demo videos

Story from the Washington Times. It pins some of Microsoft’s recent financial trouble on Linux.

Suppose you want to show a YouTube video in class, but you’re worried about the reliability of the wireless in that classroom. If the connection is out, then you’ll get no video at all. If the connection is slow/spotty, then you might end up with slow/choppy playback.
Guess what? The videos are already downloaded to [...]

Here’s a neat little trick you can do with an Ubuntu Live CD.

Cross-posted at Wide Scope

Story over at CNN here.
Some diggers are claiming that this is what they call The Linux Effect. That seems a bit unwarranted to me. The economy alone is likely sufficient to explain this drop.
However, what does seem warranted is the idea that there are a lot of people out there who would have bought a [...]