Good Gnome to You

Termie-nator answers, "What is your operating system, and what does it do? WRONG. It is Ubuntu Linux on the desktop!"

He has previously made clear that the only software developer’s text editor is vim. All these findings are meaningless compared to GNOME being the open source desktop. Oh, that is right, Bart made that clear years ago. Or did he?

Most joking aside, my desktop of choice, has hit a significant milestone today, releasing GNOME 2.14 . I remember, depending on the timing, waiting almost a year before my Linux distribution shipped with the latest released GNOME. A new version of Ubuntu called Dapper Drake will be released next month June 1st with GNOME 2.14.

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Ubuntu & I’m too smart for my own good

With the immediate arrangements for me “volunteering” for my employer, Flock, I booted up a “400$ special” PC, built myself 10 months ago. I have not used this PC much since starting with Merc, as they have met well all my “computing needs” ;-) At Merc I had 4 PCs (2 of them top of the line) and a not particular mobile, but true development box, Acer Laptop. This PC of mine was still running the previous version (warty) of the OS, Ubuntu, so I proceeded to update it with confidence as I would with any Debian-based distro.
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