Author: John Mark

Now I know why someone asked if I knew this was a Blog of Note. Hey, it was only on the right-hand side of blogger.com under the big heading "Blogs of Note". Nope, don't know how I could have known that 😦 Thanks to whoever put it there, and please fo...

The Ohio Linuxfest: Coming to an Ohio near you!

As a follow-up to my thoughts on Ubuntu, I posted my thoughts on Red Hat. Basically, Red Hat is the standard-bearer for commercial open source, and they appear to be stumbling in that role, suffering from an acute case of myopia and fighting battles t...

Forbes magazine online has been publishing a series of articles on open source. Most of them have been decent, but Daniel Lyons continues, annoyingly, to persistently get certain things wrong. Today's article is on Shuttleworth and our favorite Linux d...

Jordan Mantha, aka LaserJock, gave 2 great talks at The UbuCon, both on how to contribute to the Ubuntu project. One was more technical going into detail regarding the various aspects of Launchpad, and the other was targeted to a beginner audience, who...

What a weekend. The UbuCon turned out better than I could have possibly imagined. With little promotion, not to mention a minimum of planning, at least 60 and possibly up to 70 total showed up to discuss various topics, mostly specific to Ubuntu but al...

Here's a list of the fine companies that are supporting this event: Google - They're hosting the event. 'nuff said. Kudos to Chris and Leslie for being the champions there. Canonical - aka the Ubuntu company. They're supplying CD's to hand out for the...

Hello all, if you're going to The UbuCon please visit the RSVP page.

So after being too drunk/stoned/busy/tired/out-of-town, I let this project lie fallow for a bit too long. But now that I've come back to my senses and started working on this again, I'm very very happy to report that some very cool people will drop by ...