{"id":3119,"date":"2009-05-11T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2009-04-22T12:27:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T18:27:30","slug":"frugal-librarian-10-toss-it-out-the-winders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/frugal-librarian-10-toss-it-out-the-winders\/","title":{"rendered":"Frugal Librarian #10 – Toss it out the Winders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"frugallibrarian\"While the Frugal Librarian, or as we affectionately call him, “Froogs”, is psyched about the release of Window’s Vista’s successor, Windows 7, later this year, there is a very good and super-affordable alternative called Ubuntu to tide you over.\u00a0 You may have heard words like “open-source” and “Linux” get tossed about by your bespectacled acquaintances.\u00a0 The benevolent nerds of the world in the spirit of competition put together very sophisticated quality pieces of software that benefit you for absolutely no cost.\u00a0 Sometimes they rival packages that cost hundreds.\u00a0 Though the 2010 census may prove me wrong, there are more Homo Sapien Nerdicuses in the world than there are Microsoft employees.\u00a0\u00a0 Ubuntu is such an innovation.<\/p>\n

Ubuntu is an operating system that you can install on your computer instead of a release of Windows.\u00a0 ESPECIALLY Windows Vista.\u00a0 You’ll find it outperforms its competitors, is user friendly, and most hacker attacks are pretty much jokes, since they’re designed to affect everyone except you.\u00a0 There are dozens of such Linux operating systems, but Ubuntu is considered the easiest to adopt.<\/p>\n

If you’ve got a computer lying around, install it on there just for kicks.\u00a0 If you use the internet, check email, and print like the vast majority of people, you are going to be fine, save a hundred bucks, and not wrestle with license keys.<\/p>\n

We’ve got several books at the library<\/a><\/strong> on how to navigate this transition.\u00a0 They’re circulating more than they used to.\u00a0 If you can’t download the install disc<\/a>,<\/strong> some of these books at the library have an install CD in the back flap.\u00a0 Ideally you’ll want to download this week’s latest release of Version 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” to compare notes at the water cooler with your newfound friends.\u00a0 If you do, don’t be surprised if you’re invited to join their Warcraft guild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the Frugal Librarian, or as we affectionately call him, “Froogs”, is psyched about the release of Window’s Vista’s successor, Windows 7, later this year, there is a very good and super-affordable alternative called Ubuntu to tide you over.\u00a0 You may have heard words like “open-source” and “Linux” get tossed[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[364,1,17],"tags":[567,384,370,521,568,569],"class_list":["post-3119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-news","category-reference","category-technology","tag-computer-programs","tag-computers","tag-frugal","tag-frugal-librarian","tag-nerds","tag-ubuntu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-Oj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3121,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions\/3121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}