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Archive for April, 2008
Review: Hackett and Bankwell Issue #1
I was lucky to have received my copy of Hackett and Bankwell Issue 1 this week. I saw that there’s a huge penguin on the cover. Yay! Hooray for penguins! It’s an interesting way to study using Linux especially Ubuntu.
Things I liked about it:
It’s in a comicbook format so it’s more like a story.
It has a penguin character! And he’s explaining Linux to the user.
The words are easy to understand.
There are ’screenshots’ in the comic.
Free Software concepts are being explained to users.
Things that need to be worked on:
The illustrations’ lines aren’t as clean as I’d wish them to be.
It gets a little too wordy in some frames.
List of references could be added at the last page.
List of terms could be added at the last page.
It’s a bit wordy in the first issue maybe because the contains a lot of introductory concepts like what Linux is, what GNU [...]
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And yes, one could be OS-agnostic
After reading this entry on ZDNet’s EdTech section, I realized that there’s such a thing as being OS-agnostic.
I love Linux but in some ways I am learning to be OS-agnostic. Why do I say OS-agnostic? Read on.
To be OS-agnostic, if you ask me, is to be comfortable with any operating system installed on the computer you’re using. For example, in our office we have all sorts of machines and they have different OSes installed in them. Some have Linux, some have Windows XP, some have Windows Vista. My own laptop has both Ubuntu and Windows XP. The thing is that I could use whichever machine if needed.
I admit I don’t know the nitty-gritty of both Ubuntu and Windows XP but I am comfortable enough to use either. I could also try to tweak either, when I need to. Before, I’d really get upset [...]
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