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now, who doesn't love free stuff?
i love open source os's - so long as nothing crashes. anyone want a copy of ubuntu linux?
My lovely Ubuntu Linux desktop. Ubuntu rocks, if you haven't tried it you should, it's free. This is the Gnome window manager with some simple modifications I made.
Craftivist Justine crafted this beautiful Mini Protest Banner and hung it outside Wandsworth Prison. Here she writes why she made her Mini Protest Banner and why she chose that specific location as the resting place for her creation:
It is a protest about the injustice of poverty, and especially the massive and widening gap between the minority rich and the rest of us. It refers to the African concept of Ubuntu which we do not have a single word translation for in the English language (interestingly!) but which means something like ‘we are human only together’.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu explains it – “We believe that a person is a person through another person, that my humanity is caught up, bound up, inextricably, with yours. When I dehumanise you, I inexorably dehumanise myself. The solitary human being is a contradiction in terms and therefore you seek to work for the common good because your humanity comes into its own in belonging.”
I believe that the system we live in is all set-up to allow an elite minority group of people to live in wealth at the expense of the majority of people kept in poverty. Their wealth is utterly dependent on majority poverty, just as the wealth of our country is dependent on poverty in Africa, for example. Its all about terms of reference – worlds within worlds – from micro to macro, local to global. In my mind economic poverty is at the heart of all social injustice and is essentially ‘dehumanising’.
I wanted to show my mini protest on tour because I wanted to refer to some of the ways that I believe division between rich is poor is maintained. People aspire to wealth and security, and so, if they can afford it, they send their kids to private school ‘for a better education’. The kids grow up into a ‘better’ life with more money and better jobs, and seek ways to protect their better, wealthier lives – such as living in gated communities. Meanwhile so many of the have-not-kids who havn’t been hot-housed for ‘better’ lives, grow up with with other sets of choices on offer and end up banged-up in a different kind-of ‘gated community’. Lets face it, most of the people in prison are poor – and a horribly disproportionate number of the young men in Wandsworth Prison are black.
Instead of aspiring to separated lives of wealth and security, I would like a future for my son in which he can find the ‘belonging’ that Ubuntu refers to – in which he doesn’t have to invest in protecting his ‘better’ life from the ‘have-nots’. But for this to happen, I must aspire to it equally for everyone. After-all, as Tutu also says, “there is far more that unites us as human beings than separates us”.
Ubuntu was invoked during reparations in South-Africa. Tutu says, “Through Ubuntu – and against all the odds – South Africa experienced the astounding transformation from a violent, oppressive apartheid regime to democracy without descending into vengeful chaos”
Here's my Ubuntu desktop. I wanted something that clearly was not Mac or Windows. See the picture for annotations! This is on a Fujitsu u810, which has a pretty wide screen, but is only 7 inches. With this is mind, I took care not to clutter it, and to leave as much real estate available as possible.
OR Tambo Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Sophie Williams-De Bruyn says her acceptance speech during the Ubuntu Awards at Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), Cape Town. (Photo: GCIS)
Ubuntu is a community developed, linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more.
Prism, de los laboratorios de Mozilla permite usar fuera de tu navegador las aplicaciones web ms comunes. Toma del Ring Switcher de Compiz en Ubuntu 8.04
sobre ubuntu maverick meerkat
*wallpaper Minas Tirith wallbase.net/wallpaper/192080
*iconos Windows Icons
LOTR - Armoury of the Third Age iconfactory.com/freeware/preview/lotr
* reemplazo del menu cardapio launchpad.net/cardapio
* pugin en el panel global menu code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/wiki/InstallingonUbuntu
I have successfully installed Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope. After much trial and error, I have also successfully installed a driver for my wireless adapter and can finally connect to the internets!
OS: Ubuntu 13.04 w/ Cinnamon desktop environment
Cinnamon Theme: FlatStudio Light
GTK Theme: FlatStudio Dark
Icons: Clarity
Wallpaper: Made in Inkscape
A phone connected to the 1920x1200 screen (it runs only in 1920x1080, unfortunately).
Several apps are visible (from the left): a Weather app, a WWW browser and a Pebble Smartwatch client (the RockWork).
The WWW browser is better to be ran fullscreen but I wanted to show more apps on the desktop.
This is my ubuntu gnome desktop. The background is a picture of my cat back home. I've dabbled in making it really complex... but this set up is functional and keeps me on task. The desktop has gotten a bit cluttered recently.
With gaim minimized like that up in the corner... new messages don't interupt me while I'm working... it just silently flashes and if I want I can open the conversation. Which keeps me on task, althought I often just forgoe the whole online presence thing and work in solitude...