Archive for the ‘OS Stuff’ Category

Simple Idea: Live CDs, OpenECDL and Screencasting

Thursday, June 16th, 2005

Take an Ubuntu LiveCD, package it with screencast tutorials of an OpenECDL course and give it out free in schools.

A useful, educational piece of software that anyone can use for free.

And instant karma for FLOSS.

Links :

ECDL website http://www.ecdl.com/

A mini revolution.

Sunday, March 13th, 2005

Location. Location. Location – its a retailers mantra.

Getting prime shelf space in high street shops is a big deal for a manufacturer. And if we use this a measure of the success, Apple are really on a roll.

Its seems every phone shop and digital Photo shop in Dublin are stocking the Mac-Mini, the iPod (and many accessories and even the full iMac.
Those lovely white machines are pride of place in these stores, not sitting on a back shelve somewhere.

To put this in context; they are not stocking PCs, just the Macs.

So Vodafone are selling linux and non wintel machines to Joe Bloggs.

Now that is a mini-revolution.

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