do you ubuntu?

Posted on by jessamyn

Check me out, I made a little video with me in it and I’m putting it here.

I installed Ubuntu on two of the donated PCs at my library yesterday. It took less than an hour. In fact, if I hadn’t been making the little movie at the same time [with my laptop and my little Canon digital Elph; I don’t have a video camera] it would have taken me even less time. Ubuntu comes bundled with a lot of the popular Open Source software titles like OpenOffice, Gimp and Firefox. The Calef Library has two Windows PCs already so if people need specific software that doesn’t run on Ubuntu, they can use those. I’d like to get them a Mac as well and then they can be the only library (to my knowledge) that is triple platform in the entire state of Vermont.

Note: I have not connected these machines to the Internet or the printer yet, so I’m sure there may be pitfalls waiting for me along the way, but I think that would be true no matter what platform I was using. Ubuntu is free. My install process went like this: download and burn the Ubuntu disk image to a CD. Turn on the computer with the Ubuntu CD in the CD drive. The computer boots Ubuntu from the CD. You have the option to run it this way or install it to the hard drive. You have the option to install it on a partition (and keep Windows also) or just erase the drive and install Ubuntu as the only operating system. You restart the machine and it runs Ubuntu and it Just Works. For the Ubuntu curious (I just like saying ubuntu over and over ubuntu ubuntu ubuntu…) you might enjoy this website How to install ANYTHING in Ubuntu. If you’re just Linux curious, you might enjoy this article on how Howard County migrated more than 200 PCs to Linux, and this was in 2004. Hope you like the little movie. Please drop a note in the comments if you’re using Ubuntu at your library.

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160 thoughts on “do you ubuntu?”

  1. Nice O.S., unless happens that some piece of your hardware is non-linuxfriendly,especially modems

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  3. Great video. Ubuntu / Linux is also great on Kiosks. ISLUG (out LUG) has installed kiosks in a coffee shop and local bar.. umm beer!
    Keep up the good work.
    Tom

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  6. Great job Jessamyn! Love seeing stories like this – it warms the cockles of my heart (whatever cockles are).

    FYI, I’m one of the authors of O’Reilly’s _Ubuntu Hacks_ book – if you’ve got Ubuntu questions you should pull it off your shelf there at the library (it *is* on your shelf, right?) and flip thru it. :)

  7. Ubuntu is pretty good isn’t it.
    However, you may want to check that any things you would want to attach will work.

    Flip through here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/

    I found out the hard way that the printer I have at my parent’s house doesn’t work with *any* linux.
    Ah well, que sera sera.

  8. So is there a way to lock down these ubuntu boxes without using a kiosk load? Specifically can you auto purge the browser history, clear OO files, and prevent unwanted activities (e.g DL .exe, install software, etc).

    Last time I played with linux for public PCs there was no tool similar to policy editor/shared toolkit for locking and purging the machines after ever patron use, something I find essential for privacy.

  10. Excellent video. Congrats on giving Ubuntu a try. It gets even better. Wait until you discover all of the software, including a growing number of educational titles you can put on those PC’s.
    I have been using Ubuntu for about a week and think this may the first Linux distribution I leave on the family PC.
    Enjoy.
    Phil

  11. awesome video! More! More!

    Shawn Romine
    Library Computer Support Tech
    Douglas County Library System
    1409 NE Diamond Lake Blvd.
    Roseburg, OR 97470
    541-440-4228 phone
    541-957-7798 fax

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  15. Yay!

    More power to you! Thank you for the great video and for showing all the nay-sayers how its done.

    Shane.

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  19. How are the patrons liking using Ubuntu stations? We’re contemplating looking into suggesting it for our system libraries and we’re curious what the feedback has been from the patrons in this library. Thanks!

  20. After reading your post about installing the PCs in the library I went and downloaded Ubuntu on a spare laptop. I did a clean install. I love it! It’s on the Internet now. I haven’t messed much with the printing yet.

  21. Congratulations for entering the wonderful world of free and open source software.

    I have Kubuntu installed on all of my school library PCs (and an old iMac).

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  23. Wow! It only took you ten seconds to start up Open Office!? :-)

    Listen, you get what you pay for. I tried using Ubuntu Linux for about two months and found it to be clunky and slow: Firefox was a dog and OpenOffice was unusable; Gnome was unresponsive. Reinstalling Windows was a breath of fresh air. My current setup is: a Windows machine for everyday browsing, email, and Office applications and a Linux machine for the occasional Linux-only application. I also use a Mac laptop because it makes me look cool in public, and believe me I need all the help I can get :-)

    Another point I’d like to make. People often make a big deal about how easy it is to install Linux and how much software it comes with. The fact is that the vast majority of computer users will never install an OS in their lives; their computers come with an OS installed. And much of the time their computers come with all the other stuff you need installed as well (Office, etc.). And, I positively garantee that you’ll never use close to half of the stuff that came installed on your Ubuntu install. These facts make the mere hour you spent installing look kind-of wasteful. Think of the things you could have done with that hour! :-)

    This is not to say that I don’t understand or sympathize with all the cool counter-culture reasons to run Linux and stick it to Microsoft. But, just like the Mac commercials that imply Mac’s are somehow immune to Viruses and incompatibility problems, a public disservice is done when you tout advantages that really aren’t there.

    Thanks for giving me the forum to get this stuff off my chest. :-)

  25. Great video!

    Mark Shuttleworth played this video to the developers at the end of the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Sevilla, Spain today. It was received very well.

    Congratulations.

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  27. You are Heroic.

    Bring this idea to other local librarians! The library is all about freedom of information, and that’s what Linux and Ubuntu are about!

  28. Great video!

    Now use “System > Administration > Synapic” to install “ubuntu-restricted-extras” flash player, java, more fonts and some multimedia stuff.

    Best of luck with Ubuntu!

  29. Also try other live distributions, PCLinuxOS, Mepis etc. Love the video!

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  33. Greetings to Mrs. West from Mr. West :-) (no relation)

    This video is great; wonderful viral advertising for Ubuntu.

    Another way to install GNU/Linux, albeit Debian rather than Ubuntu (although Ubuntu is Debian-based), is to point your Windows web browser to http://goodbye-microsoft.com and click on the Debian icon. The process sets up a dual-boot, walks you through the partitioning of your drive, and downloads what’s needed from the ‘net and installs it, all without having to burn and boot from a CD.

    Again, thanks for the video! Lotta fun!

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  37. Just connect them up to the Internet with nework cards which are usaly always supported, I bet the windows machines are connected to a rooter some ware and ae on the net because of that, I recon you shoud network up the printer too so all machines can use the printer.

  38. Don’t for get to Find the Ubuntu fourms too get help that you may need, have alook around the net.

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  42. Great video! I’m looking to try ubuntu on Dell starts selling hardware with ubuntu preinstalled.

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  46. Great – looks like you had a lot of fun.

    I wonder if this kind of thing will force MS into letting non-profits install a MS OS (for free)…
    Not holding my breath ;) …although it would be the smart thing to do.

  47. SarcasticSmarmyGuy: If Ubuntu was slow and unresponsive for you, you’ve got an older machine. Xubuntu works great on those. ;-)
    Ubuntu does have higher system requirements than Windows XP. It’s also newer. It’s also a ton lighter than Vista.
    I’m not entirely sure what advantages she talked about which weren’t there. Ubuntu is free, it comes with a lotta software, and installing it took less time than it would to have gotten an equivalent Windows XP system with all the fixings up and running. (Yeah, the boxes already had 2000 on them, but they may have been donated on the condition that the computer be wiped; a fairly common and not unreasonable request, actually.)

    —

    All in all, this was a pretty great video. Good job, Jessamyn.

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  49. Jessamyn,

    Love your little video :^)

    Love your little dance at the end even more… Joy.

    SarcasticSmarmyGuy: You have no idea what it’s like having to use donated equipment. “You get what you pay for”. Quite.

    Go girl.

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