Cory Doctorow: on Boing Boing : Mac guru and software developer Mark Pilgrim recently switched to Ubuntu Linux after becoming fed up with proprietary Mac file-formats and the increasing use of DRM technologies in the MacOS. True to his reputation, Mark says Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning “can’t install Debianâ€?.
See here his list of add-on’s (including his firefox extensions). Sample:

• digiKam + Kipi plugins. It’s just like iPhoto except it calls albums “tagsâ€?, exports to Flickr for free, exports to HTML that validates, stores my important metadata in a SQLite database, can be operated entirely with a keyboard, and doesn’t suck;
• k9copy. It’s MacTheRipper and DVD2OneX all wrapped into one. Really;
• MPlayer (and MEncoder). Compiled from source, yo. It’s the only thing I’ve felt the need to recompile, or indeed compile in the first place. Because a major new release came out about a week after Dapper shipped, and I wanted to try it. Also, I wanted support for more video codecs than the prebuilt binary included
• Free and Open Source Internet TV Platform Democracy TV

and 14 others.
Among the Firefox extensions: NextPlease, NoScript…
And I thought Mark was diving in family now…

• Clip-Lok is a Spanish company which manufactures innovative boxing (simple plywood sheets with a patented angle fastener)
• Ikor-B is a Slovenian company which manufactures folding container housing transportable in … containers.