Posts tagged: UBUNTU

During the same period that I thought I’d be playing a lot with an old Dell laptop running Ubuntu Linux (but haven’t), several notable Apple fans have made, or are seriously and publicly considering making, the jump from OS X to open-source operating systems like Ubuntu.

Mark Pilgrim led the way. (He does work for IBM, though he’s gotten remarkably few snide remarks about that in the comments.)

Cory Doctorow is talking like he’s about to do it as well. Cory has a Mac tattooed on his bicep, but that might not last either.

Two and a half years ago I wrote a review-like essay on six weeks spent using FreeBSD and KDE as my primary desktop system – when I was between PowerBooks.

As hinted at in a recent post, I now have a second machine alongside my 15" PowerBook. It’s an old Dell Inspiron 4000 running bleeding-edge Ubuntu 6.06. This includes GNOME 2.14 with the Deskbar – which gets compared to Quicksilver but is more like a hybrid of Spotlight and LaunchBar.

$ grep ub$ /usr/share/dict/words
    | ruby -ne "print split(/(\s+)/).map{|w|w.capitalize}" 
    | xargs -I FOOB echo "FOOBuntu" 
    | column

Bathtubuntu     Interclubuntu   Strubuntu
Bedaubuntu      Knubuntu        Stubuntu
Bedubuntu       Misdaubuntu     Subuntu
Beelzebubuntu   Moneygrubuntu   Subshrubuntu
Blubuntu        Nubuntu         Succubuntu
Bubuntu         Ouroubuntu      Swilltubuntu
Cherubuntu      Overscrubuntu   Trillibubuntu
Chubuntu        Pubuntu         Trubuntu
Clubuntu        Redaubuntu      Tubuntu
Cubuntu         Redubuntu       Unclubuntu
Daubuntu        Rerubuntu       Undaubuntu
Disdubuntu      Rescrubuntu     Underclubuntu
Drubuntu        Resnubuntu      Undergrubuntu
Dubuntu         Reubuntu        Underscrubuntu
Flubuntu        Roubuntu        Undershrubuntu
Flubdubuntu     Rubuntu         Undertubuntu
Fubuntu         Sandclubuntu    Undubuntu
Gaubuntu        Scrubuntu       Washtubuntu
Glubuntu        Semishrubuntu   Woodgrubuntu
Grubuntu        Shrubuntu       Zebubuntu
Hubuntu         Sillabubuntu    Zermahbubuntu
Hubbubuntu      Slubuntu
Inrubuntu       Snubuntu

I got the idea for this after listening to a recent LugRadio podcast. They’re all about Ubuntu. If you didn’t know, Ubuntu is a Linux distribution that has begun sprouting similarly-named offshoots like Kubuntu and Edubuntu and whatnot.