| Tuesday, January 25, 2005 |
 | It's not exactly single-handedly tearing the money from the hands of Teen Beat Megatron Bill Gates and eating it, but after a bit of flirtation with Knoppix I've just installed Ubuntu Linux on my spare PC. This is intended to give me some familiarity with non-Windows OSes, with a view to potentially getting an iBook.
So far so good, but then I guess the GDE thing makes it pretty easy so far. I haven't dealt with a command line for a while. So far, in fact, since I have not tried to do anything ambitious involving RJ-45 ports or wireless networking, everything is groovy and will continue to be so until I do try. Since the password for my router was on my now-dead laptop, this may be a while in the doing.
Speaking of which, it seems at least one of the problems post-dropping was the hard drive. More precisely, I popped it into a USB2 external caddy, and discovered that it was not so much a portable hard drive as a portable device that makes mewling noises. It's partly adorable and partly deeply saddening. However, since the motherboard and processor are probably going to have suffered quite badly from the same percussion, I suspect replacing the whole thing is probably still the way forward
Besides, I've probably lost half the little screws, and ah fuck it.
via Ned, a couple of Linuxy reasons to be cheerful:
Tomboy for Linux.
Supreme ultimate power for Linux.
Grand Theft Auto for Linux
3 Comments:
Knoppix not worth it then? I was gonna have a shot at that this weekend.
Well, it was the live CD - I'm not sure that Knoppix has a version that boots from the HDD. So, since I only have one optical drive on my spare PC, if I was going to get much joy out of a Linux distro it was going to have to be an HDD boot.
Knoppix is OK - it was my first Linux environment, but basically resembled the other KDE environments I've seen - chunky icons, The Gimp, OpenOffice - like that.
Well, it was the live CD - I'm not sure that Knoppix has a version that boots from the HDD. So, since I only have one optical drive on my spare PC, if I was going to get much joy out of a Linux distro it was going to have to be an HDD boot.
Knoppix is OK - it was my first Linux environment, but basically resembled the other KDE environments I've seen - chunky icons, The Gimp, OpenOffice - like that.
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