I started playing with Linux as a teenager, back in the RedHat 5.1 days, around 1998. I have used it as my main desktop, or dual-booted between Linux and Windows 98-2000-XP. Back then, I had a lot of time to waste, troubleshooting hardware (remember internal hardware modems?), and just playing with the system. Why would I use just an email client when I could set up fetchmail, qmail, spamassassin and mutt to accomplish the same, right ?
Went from RedHat, to Slackware, to Ubuntu, to Arch.
But the times have changed - I have a job, kids, and I really don't have the time to struggle with Linux anymore. I've tried a couple of modern distributions, but ended troubleshooting the same problems I encountered 15 years ago !
I use Windows 7 on my desktop exclusively. It just works, is stable, and honestly is the best desktop OS I have ever used.
I'm running Linux where it thrives most - DD-WRT on my router, Ubuntu on my tiny odroid-u2 "server", and XBMCbuntu on my HTPC. I can not imagine running anything else on these devices.
are those CFLs instant on ? do they produce an equal spectrum of light ? if you manage to break them, can you walk around safely without exposing yourself to mercury vapors ?
No ?
Well, I'll buy incandescent even if it costs 3times as much as CFL.
"As of 13-Oct-07 fit-PC has been "slashdotted" (article on it published in Slashdot), so we observed unexpected demand peak. Currently we are out of stock. We expect to resume stock beginning of December '07. We apologize for the inconvenience."..seems it worked..
I have a MSI K7N2 ILSR DELTA mobo which is also based on nvidia nforce2 ultra400 chipset. Booting from a SATA drive using a ramdisk which loads ft3xx.o and then remounts root keeps me from updating the kernel very often... it just takes sooo much time to update everything, and fix the ramdisk when something goes bad...
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I started playing with Linux as a teenager, back in the RedHat 5.1 days, around 1998. I have used it as my main desktop, or dual-booted between Linux and Windows 98-2000-XP. Back then, I had a lot of time to waste, troubleshooting hardware (remember internal hardware modems?), and just playing with the system. Why would I use just an email client when I could set up fetchmail, qmail, spamassassin and mutt to accomplish the same, right ? Went from RedHat, to Slackware, to Ubuntu, to Arch. But the times have changed - I have a job, kids, and I really don't have the time to struggle with Linux anymore. I've tried a couple of modern distributions, but ended troubleshooting the same problems I encountered 15 years ago ! I use Windows 7 on my desktop exclusively. It just works, is stable, and honestly is the best desktop OS I have ever used. I'm running Linux where it thrives most - DD-WRT on my router, Ubuntu on my tiny odroid-u2 "server", and XBMCbuntu on my HTPC. I can not imagine running anything else on these devices.
are those CFLs instant on ? do they produce an equal spectrum of light ? if you manage to break them, can you walk around safely without exposing yourself to mercury vapors ? No ? Well, I'll buy incandescent even if it costs 3times as much as CFL.
"As of 13-Oct-07 fit-PC has been "slashdotted" (article on it published in Slashdot), so we observed unexpected demand peak. Currently we are out of stock. We expect to resume stock beginning of December '07. We apologize for the inconvenience." ..seems it worked..
looks like orwell's 1984 suits better the US in 2004 then the Russians in their KGB era.
Do you boot you Linux from a SATA HDD ?
I have a MSI K7N2 ILSR DELTA mobo which is also based on nvidia nforce2 ultra400 chipset. Booting from a SATA drive using a ramdisk which loads ft3xx.o and then remounts root keeps me from updating the kernel very often... it just takes sooo much time to update everything, and fix the ramdisk when something goes bad...
is there no better/easier way ?