Comments on: ubunutu follow-up, explanations and links

By: oldvermonthome.info » Supreme Court of Georgia Names LexisNexis Publisher of Official Reports

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:44:08 +0000

[...] We’ve started putting up useful or fun YouTube videos, one a day, to demonstrate the significant noninfringing use of the service. Also because we’re having fun. At first, I was putting them in News Picks, but this one is too great not to put right here. It’s a librarian in Vermont, USA, who installs Ubuntu on two rickety old donated computers in less than an hour and then shows Ubuntu off. The computers didn’t come with valid licenses to any operating system, so she tried Ubuntu. As you will see, she is impressed at all the applications that come with it, including OpenOffice, and she shows you how to save an OpenOffice document as Microsoft Word format. Here’s the Ogg version of her video. If you would like to do the same, and she does make it look fun, here are some instructions she posted afterwards, but as you will see in the video, Ubuntu does the ubuntuing without much input from you. You can even ask and they’ll send you a free CD in the mail of Ubuntu, Edubuntu, or Kubuntu, if you don’t want to burn your own. I use Kubuntu myself. Edubuntu is for schools. If you are a business, this page about applications tested to run on Ubuntu and where support is available will interest you. But Ubuntu, as they say, is and always be free of charge: Ubuntu is and always will be free of charge. You do not pay any licensing fees. You can download, use and share Ubuntu with your friends, family, school or business for absolutely nothing. We issue a new desktop and server release every six months. That means you’ll always have the the latest and greatest applications that the open source world has to offer. [...]

By: Greywulf

Greywulf — Sat, 26 May 2007 10:27:14 +0000

Well deserved praise and fame for a brilliant video :)

Congratulations and thanks for posting the video up in the first place.

Here in the UK we love ya!

Mor e Ubuntus (can Ubuntu be plural? Ubuntii maybe) in libraries we say.

Consider yourself rss’d.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 19 May 2007 02:46:18 +0000

Enjoyable little video. I am wondering how the clients are enjoying Ubuntu.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:32:02 +0000

I appreciate you helping to bring so much attention to the existence of good accordion music.

By: Dee

Dee — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:48:15 +0000

Your video is really cute and cool. It’s really made it way over to many internet sites and forums(even ones from Singapore)!

By: Vermont’s Librarian | Tiago Boldt Sousa

Vermont’s Librarian | Tiago Boldt Sousa — Sun, 13 May 2007 15:54:59 +0000

[...] After the success she had with that initiative, she’s also written a follow-up, with some tips on how to install Ubuntu. [...]

By: Heimo

Heimo — Sun, 13 May 2007 15:43:07 +0000

Your video was linked on Ubuntuforums (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/) and now it’s also on Groklaw (http://www.groklaw.net/). Very nice! If you haven’t yet accepted any of those marriage proposals, you’ll find me at Ubuntuforums. ;-)

By: Software Livre no SAPO » Blog Archive » Ubuntu na Biblioteca

Software Livre no SAPO » Blog Archive » Ubuntu na Biblioteca — Sat, 12 May 2007 21:52:20 +0000

[...] Uns dias depois publicou um outro artigo, onde revelou a sua surpresa por inesperadamente se ter tornado numa pequena “estrela” da comunidade. [...]

By: David B.

David B. — Fri, 11 May 2007 06:39:12 +0000

Dear Jessamyn:
Let me contribute with some links you might find useful related to your nice video of the other day.

As I told you in a comment to your video post, there is a superb Free Software option to manage libraries called KOHA at http://www.koha.org
Here you have a list of some libraries with public accesible catalogs you can check:
http://www.koha.org/showcase/opacs.html
This is a step further in adopting FLOSS for your library and one more complex than installing Ubuntu, but maybe you can propose the software to be adopted as project for improvement for a group of libraries of your environement (maybe at a council level?, were you planning to upgrade from an older system sometime soon, this might save quite a lot of money)
Another area where you can benefit from FLOSS is in the website of your library: you can set up a dynamic site like Drupal, Joomla, Xoops (or even Wordpress), etc so it is much easier to update your website, post news, activities, notices, etc related to your library.
Hosting service for these websites are really cheap nowadays (150$ for two years or so), you can test demos of any of these systems at
http://www.opensourcecms.com
Another compilation of Free Software for Windows can be found at:
http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/apps/en/index.html
There is an educational variation of Ubuntu, called Edubuntu that you might find of interest if you get young readers to use your library’s computers, it includes part of KDE edutainment suite (although it runs gnome), I think it is worth checking (maybe you could suggest the idea to your local school, so they do the same as you in case the get donated PCs or set up a computer lab):
http://www.edubuntu.org/UsingEdubuntu
http://edu.kde.org
To end with my coment: I saw a troll or microsoft drone commenting on your video post: expect some of them coming now you have become a popular example to follow: this is whattthey fear and they must figh against, but don´t worry: you have all the support of hundreds of thousands of happy Linux users around the world!!!

Again, sincere congratulations and best regards.
David B. Spain.

By: j's scratchpad » Blog Archive » More info on Ubunutu Linux

j's scratchpad » Blog Archive » More info on Ubunutu Linux — Fri, 11 May 2007 04:11:55 +0000

[...] Jessamyn West of the Librarian.net blog has a new posting on more info on Ubunutu Linux, including links even to a wiki! http://www.librarian.net/stax/2043/ubunutu-follow-up-explanations-and-links/ [...]

By: Nathan Oyler

Nathan Oyler — Thu, 10 May 2007 19:58:39 +0000

Enjoyable video, gave me a good laugh :)