{"id":4399,"date":"2009-05-18T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T08:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/ubuntu\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T17:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:07:27","slug":"ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ubuntu-splash-brown.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 387px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ubuntu-splash-brown.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337236805838299618\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>As SolderSmoke listeners know, I&#8217;m not really a software guy. In fact, I&#8217;m only a marginally competent user of software. But I&#8217;ve taken a liking to Ubuntu Linux. It works, it is user friendly, and it seems to have developed a very cool African cultural thing around it. Check out the names of the various versions and you will see what I mean:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;\">4.10 Warty Warthog <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;\">5.04 Hoary Hedgehog <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;\">5.10 Breezy Badger <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;\">6.06 Dapper Drake <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;\">6.10 Edgy Eft <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;\">7.04 Feisty Fawn <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;\">7.10 Gutsy Gibbon <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;\">8.04 Hardy Heron <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;\">8.10 Intrepid Ibex <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;\">9.04 Jaunty Jackalope <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 51, 0); font-weight: bold;\">9.10 Karmic Koala (NEXT ONE) October 2009 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>OK, now back to the radios&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As SolderSmoke listeners know, I&#8217;m not really a software guy. In fact, I&#8217;m only a marginally competent user of software. But I&#8217;ve taken a liking to Ubuntu Linux. It works, it is user friendly, and it seems to have developed a very cool African cultural thing around it. Check out the names of the various &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/ubuntu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ubuntu&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4401,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions\/4401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}