using gnome partition manager to reformat windows away

Posted by Adrian on Nov 10, 2007 in Open Source | 1 comment Dave at Senokian pointed me to the GNOME partititon manager software as an ISO image to deal with my broken disk partitions.  This morning I’ve reformatted my old XP partition to an ext3 linux partition, and using that as my file store from now on. Its taken me a couple of months of running Ubuntu on my laptop to take this step, gaining confidence in the operating system.  Recently,...
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Progress update on Mercian’s migration to open source

Posted by Adrian on Nov 4, 2007 in Open Source | 1 comment Just a quick update on where we are: the repeated delays in the release of Zimbra 5.0 which we need to migrate our remaining 15 email users is holding up a full migration away from Outlook/Exchange. The 2 existing users are very happy with Zimbra. Our own CRM/EIS system is nearing betatesting, but has taken twice as long as planned We now have a working Trixbox system with BRI card that...
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