While we do publish PostBooks Installers that will quickly and easily install PostBooks, some people like to make the installation a fun little project by installing the individual components. And really, it's not a bad way for you to practice installing, or to get hands on experience with some of the pieces that we try to hide from you in the packaged installers. This will be like taking a long walk, but in the end, it's the journey that counts. Now, if you've been following my writings/ramblings for a while, or if you have met me in person, you know that I'm fiercly aligned with the Penguin Nation, that is, I use, recommend, endorse, and otherwise try to sell everyone on using some flavor of Linux. Well, In this blog, you'll notice I don't say "Now, go to 'terminal' and..." . Yep - ALL GUI. How's THAT for a surprise? The other surprise is that I wrote this using screen shots from Windows 2000.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
- Excerpt from The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (1915)
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This week the annual Apple Technology love-in known as Macworld is going on in San Francisco. In these days of diminishing Trade Shows, this show not only survives, it thrives. This is a show for all enthusiasts, fans and users of Apple technology. Walking through the the set up today, I observed row after row of booths that will be selling products to users of iPhones and iPads, and iPods, and of course Macs. There are many consumer-oriented users of all of this technology, and at xTuple, we continue to see these consumers dragging their Apple passion back into the workplace. Apple technology in business, like Apple's stock price, is on the rise.
