Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Released: Get it with a .torrent

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Torrent links: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors#bt

Check the features here.

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Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope has been released! Get torrent here.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Download Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope (i386/desktop), Full/Final Release on CD, with this torrent:

http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ubuntu-releases/9.04/ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent

or find your version on Complete Download Mirror List.

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Intrepid Ibex – Ubuntu 8.10: Released, installed, configured and running XMMS

Friday, October 31, 2008

Colonos’ interface to cyberspace has been updated to Ubuntu 8.10 and here are the first impressions – with more to come.

So far most things look fine (the default wallpaper is surprisingly nice), lm-sensors configured painlessly, but getting my favourite music player, XMMS, to work proved a right hassle – basically you have to be Intrepid to get it compiled in the Ibex.

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Beyond a Doubt: Free Software for a Free Society

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Gustavo Duartes has a “skeptical take on software development and the business thereof” and he here writes why Brasil Loves Linux and GNU and all that jazz – this might be worth quoting:

“You might be surprised to learn that Microsoft licenses are nearly twice as expensive in Brazil in absolute terms. I imagine Microsoft charges about the same and Brazil’s brutal tax burden makes up the rest (the taxes are built into the price). But the interesting result is the relative price of licenses in each society, captured as % of GNI per capita. As a proportion of national incomes, business licenses are nineteen times more expensive to Brazilian society and home licenses are fifteen times more expensive. While GNI per capita is not a perfect figure, it reflects the incomes people make, how much they spend to live, and how much they pay in taxes. It is a crucial number when it comes to public policy; it’s not hard to understand why rational policies must dodge licensing costs when possible.

If there’s any hope of widespread computer access, then surely we can’t expect people to spend 7.8% of their annual income on Microsoft software licenses alone. The burden on small businesses is also prohibitive. This order-of-magnitude difference is a fundamental problem that can’t be solved by piecemeal license giveaways. Suppose Microsoft gave out Windows and Office wholesale to all schools. Then what happens if those kids need a computer at home or in their parents’ business? License costs are simply out of whack with respect to most of society. Using Linux in public schools, rarely attended by richer kids, seems inescapable.“

from http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/

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