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Google SketchUp Delights the Mind
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| Here is how I came to design that museum. At my public library
| job, I help youth and adults who use the 28 Linux stations we have
| available seven days a week. Into the computer center walks a
| community resident, Kwadjo Dixon, from Ghana. The town I work in,
| Takoma Park, has residents from 92 countries. That makes for an
| interesting workday for me.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/173009/article.html
It's only natural for a place where /studying/ takes place to also be free and open...
Invisible Locked-Up Linux and Crippled Linux
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| Locking up Linux inside black boxes goes against its reason for
| existing in the first place. I wonder if all those people who call
| Richard Stallman an outmoded relic and lunatic still think he's
| wack for writing GPL3? This is why I keep talking about not
| leaving Linux and FOSS in the hands of big business, and bugging
| ordinary individual users to become contributors, and to keep the
| non-corporate Linux community thriving. We should have
| intersecting interests with our friends the big globalcorps-- we
| want to buy cool devices to use, and they want to sell them to us.
| But somehow that simple equation has become terribly distorted and
| we no longer have intersecting interests, but have to watch our
| backs every minute because we can't trust them to not pull some
| sneaky exploitive dodge.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/it_management/2009100300135OSBZOO
Recent:
Another Microsoft horror story, the Huntington Indiana public library
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| The library in Marion, Indiana, just 15 miles or so south of me, uses Linux. Not only do
| they use Linux, they use a distribution based on the free Fedora Linux called Userful
| Discoverstation which uses terminal multiplexing. This allows one tower to power 10
| workstations with their own monitors, keyboards, and mice. This is not only much better
| for the environment than having 10 boxes running their own copy of the OS, it saves on
| the electric bill, and they donât have to buy licenses from Microsoft. (You could set up
| a free Linux distro to get the same effect, Userful just makes it easier).
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http://izanbardprince.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/another-microsoft-horror-story-the-huntington-indiana-public-library/
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