Tag: debian
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Installing Debian 8 on a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition
Over the break, Eric Mill put together great step-by-step instructions showing how to install Debian 8 (Jessie) on a Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition. Eric also had some great things to say about the laptop and program themselves: Dell calls their program Project Sputnik, and it is managed by a friendly team of Linux engineers inside Dell…
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Mark Shuttleworth on the Cloud, Ubuntu on Dell and more
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and the head of Canonical, the commercial entity behind the popular linux distribution, is currently making his rounds in the States. Yesterday he was quite busy, taking the stage at both the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco as well as at LinuxCon up in Portland Oregon. Today he popped…
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It takes a Community (and they could use a Marketing Guide) — Mozilla Debut’s theirs
It’s 2009 and most of us appreciate the power of the community. It has been what has driven the ascendancy of free and open source software. It is what helped propel our current President to the White House. Obama community in action. Source: Huffington Post “I’m in charge here” doesn’t work for a community Although…
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Sun’s New VP of Cloud Computing Strategy: Ian Murdock
Last week at Cloud Connect I was able to grab a few minutes with my old boss from Sun, Ian Murdock. Ian, the founder of the Debian Linux distribution, came to Sun to lead the Open Solaris charge and after that tackled Developer relations. Turns out that with the latest Sun re-org Ian has now…