Ubuntu Workshop

Thanks Dave Sullivan for your workshop on Ubuntu and thanks to the people at the Linux Café for hosting it. Dave did the impossible; answered all our questions and kept to his agenda despite some video technical problems. In addition to learning about Ubuntu, an animal rights activist from the audience freed a Goldfish and we got to watch it swim about the desktop. If you haven't tried this just press Alt+F2 and type “free the fish” (without the quotes). The poor little flipper had a bit of a hard time when someone else unleashed a bunch killer 'cows' that tried dropping explosive dung piles on the poor little thing (Alt+F2 “gegls from outer space”) I guess there is a price to being free! As a Linux user I'm free. Free to choose the software I want, free to not have to pay to use it, and free to set it up in a manner I like. The price, there is a learning curve. But with workshops like Dave's and communities like the Linux café, this makes it a little easier and lots of fun. Linux's only limitation is the user and the community that supports him/her.

Oh, don't forget to feed the fish and remember it's a binatarian so just feed it bits and bytes.

By the way, I've installed several distributions of Linux on my Thinkpad T43 and Ubuntu dapper was the only one that worked out of the box. Edgy needed some tweaking, but very minor stuff.

Paul ><(((*>