Colorado Hardy Release Party
The Colorado loco team celebrated its Hardy release party on April 26. It was a big success by all accounts. In addition to a lot of good beer, good food and good Ubuntu discussion, our host, Simon, went over the highlights of the Hardy release. We had a presentation on Launchpad from Canonical’s Joey Stanford and I begged for volunteers to help at the Ubuntu table at the upcoming TIE conference. In addition we had representatives from System76 talk about why they chose Ubuntu for their laptops. We also did an impromptu install of Hardy for someone who couldn’t imagine any use for vista. Unfortunately his HP laptop has the infamous Broadcom wifi. One would think companies which seem to support Linux would avoid using hardware from companies that don’t. I wonder how fast Broadcom Corp would release open source drivers if HP, IBM and Dell dropped them until they do.
Anyway, here are some of the obligatory pics…
Simon shows his stuff.
Joey introduce a little know project called Launchpad.
Yours truly shows how to count to 10.
Carl Richell, founder of System76, explains why Ubuntu rocks for his business.
Goodbye vista. Hello Ubuntu.
Subject yourself to the rest of the photos if you wish.
Dang… party looks like it was awesome! Sorry I had to miss it.
I would have just made you jealous with my macbook anyways.
That was a fun party, and yes, the beer was excellent.
I just installed Hardy Heron three times in the last 10 hours, all on very different laptops. It’s the first Ubuntu and the first Linux distro where EVERYTHING WORKED. One of my students just did an install and same thing. I’m amazed by the quality of HH.
I always assumed that an extra three or so hours searching the forums and using nano to edit the xorg.conf file was, well, normal.
I have a HP V6320 with the infamous broadcom wifi card and i wanted to change it. The annoying part is they (HP) are unwilling to release a compatible wifi card from another manufacturer for this model and on that pretext refused to change it.