Yesterday I finally got up to date and installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my desktop. Other than some slow software mirrors, everything has gone smoothly.

I never understood why Google chose StarOffice instead of OpenOffice.org to be part of the freely downloadable Google Pack software. But now, and without warning, StarOffice seems to have been dumped by Google.

One of the biggest so called barriers to adopting Linux is what is called the learning curve. Many people describe the learning curve for Linux to be a steep one. It used to be but not any more.

Ultrasol is a collection of nearly 400 different solitaire or patience games. There are games that use the 52 card International Pattern deck, games for the 78 card Tarock deck, eight and ten suit Ganjifa games, Hanafuda games, Matrix games, Mahjongg games, and games for an original hexadecimal-based deck.`

The Free Software game scene doesn't stop for the election, just an update to several projects that are moving forward strongly including the space RPG Vega Strike, the fantasy RPG Scourge, and Worms-like Hedgewars.

Working with school systems one thing you will notice in almost every case is a pathetic library…there is just not enough money for books. Each district has a budget for books which is often augmented by a Library Fair or some type of way of selling stuff to get money for the Library. But still there just is not enough money for kids to have books.

Google introduced the beta version of its open source Chrome browser nearly two months ago, and issued its third update to the beta yesterday.

Synaptic? deb? sudo? apt? Damn! I still remember when I first installed Ubuntu (my first encounter with Linux). But God bless Google, Ubuntu Forums, a few other resources and Blogs.