Comments on: I am eating donut holes this morning

By: macewan

macewan — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:48:19 +0000

Well, I’m an Ubuntu Linux geek if that counts for anything. Before she moved on to a Mac my wife preferred the Linux platform too. Each of us have been individually interviewed by Linux.com in previous years. Ubuntu Linux is being used a the office and at home.

Val is now using an iMac (thanks to PayPerPost) and for graphics she uses software based off of GIMP – thinging it’s called Seahorse(sp).

By: Linda R, Moore

Linda R, Moore — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:02:28 +0000

The GIMP.

Apache.

WordPress.

OpenOffice.

Linux.

Etc. etc. etc. About 80% of the software I use at home and for business is open source.

By: techie

techie — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 03:11:48 +0000

Pete,
And you use the open source MAC software. Wait, that’s not open source. Just playin with ya. I hope you at least boot camp. I love the rest of the list.

Anyway, I have too many open source to list here. Just last night I was working with a guy just starting his own business and I listed off 10 or so open source packages he could do the same thing with for free. Interestingly, the free software conversation was opened with one of the most useful open source packages PDFCreator (or name your favorite PDF printer).

By: Lucynda Riley

Lucynda Riley — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:18:03 +0000

Oooooh I love donut holes. There is a little mom and pop donut shop here in town. Its been here for as long as I can remember. I can remember when we had relatives staying over on holidays and everyone would pitch in and buy donuts from them. I would wake up in the morning and fine there red and cream colored boxes on the table. They made the best donuts and had great donut holes.

By: Ghosty

Ghosty — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:06:25 +0000

The GIMP.

http://www.gimp.org/

My kinda photoshop.

By: marie

marie — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:19:21 +0000

Here, in Canada, we call our donut holes “Timbits”,from the donut chain “Tim Horton”. He was a canadian hockey player who died in a car crash.

They are sooooooo good.

Marie

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:47:51 +0000

I’m teaching myself to use Open Workbench, an open-source replacement for MSProject.

For fun.

Because I’m a curious guy.

(Really, I’m a sick, sick man. I need a life.)

By: Pete Wright

Pete Wright — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:11:31 +0000

It’s worth pointing out as well that this entire company is built around open source software. We program in Ruby (open-source) using the Rails framework (open-source). We host on Linux (open-source) using Apache (open-source) and Mongrel (open-source). We even monitor the performance of our systems with Nagios and Cacti – both open source.

Across the company, to save money on Office licenses, we have a bunch of people using NeoOffice (open source). Our browser of choice is the open-source Firefox, and many people eschew Apple’s Mail client for the open-source Thunderbird mail client.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:38:50 +0000

By: Cass

Cass — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:25:48 +0000

yes, indeed! I am a big fan of wordpress, for instance ;0

pass the donut holes, please.