Software Freedom Innovations

Also Running Ubuntu 9.10. Love it! also running windows 7 in ubuntu with virtual box. WORKS GREAT!

80% http://sidux.com/ 20% XP Pro for "toyz"...

If you upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 via WUBI and are having shutdown problems, the fix can be found in post #19 here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sysvinit/+bug/468589. The steps to implement the fix can be found in post #41 here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1306789&page=5

Fresh install on an older Dell Latitude D505. Total install time was about 30 minutes, and I add all my data restored inside of 1 hour from start of installation. So far it's running very smooth. Had 1 minor glitch installing Wine but got it resolved.

It's okay if you are not a headhunter and this is a real job opening, not a resume collecting effort for some government contract bid. We will leave this up for now, but we would like to know the details about the opening,

I am not a head hunter. This is for two open positions on my team, plus one on the applications team. I'm motivated by not wanting to be the only guy on-call all the time, not some bonus if I bring someone else in. Don't try to discuss salary with me because I'm not the hiring manager, and I can't promise anything in that regard. All I can say ... Read Moreis it's an exciting company to work for, we use a lot of open source, and the team we have is really great.

Details are at http://www.reachlocal.com/careers/11, and I guess we have some developer positions as well.

That's cool email something about what you have to offer and maybe we can work something in for you in the next couple of weeks. My Name (Mike) above our phone number is my email address, place the at sign and the dot com in the obvious places.

There is an mplayer plugin for Firefox that should work, just Google it :)

Ok, fair enough. The server that speaks the same language as Windows is called Samba. All of the mainstream distros have packages for it. The default settings for it are good enough that it will run right after installing it. At that stage, it might not do exactly what you want, so you'll have to get your hands dirty and configure it. There ... Read Moreare plenty of examples online and there are two full books that come with the source distribution (at least they used to), both the O'Reilly book and the Official Samba How-to And Reference Guide.

Out of curiosity, where do you live? Perhaps if you tell me, someone else who lives near you will come out of the woodwork.

That is the problem with Linux (the users), It's great and all and does what it does well, but everyone shouldn't be expected to jump right in and get their hands dirty.

What needs to happen is someone needs to develop specialty distros that easily address needs that replace Home Server and things like that.

I'm a Linux Users and Love Linux, but... Read More I can't tell the typical Windows User to switch to Linux because it's great, when the is "Always" some assembly required. I equate Linux to a Kit Car as opposed to a automobile from GM.