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Living With Linux…Again
April 12
Hey all. First off, I want a way to show more than just the Blather articles here on the front page. I can’t decide how to do it, though. I feel like you guys need to know when I update Music, even though it’s usually every Sunday and as grown, responsible adults you should be able to remember that on your own. Anyway, if you have a suggestion, let me know, thanks.
This past weekend and this week have seen me exploring the world of Linux again. Of course, it wasn’t that simple…
I bought a wireless card for my Linux box. Got a good deal on it, too. I forget to make sure it would work with Linux, though. Yeah, yeah, I know. I should do research FIRST. Anyway, thinking it was more important to use the card than to use the computer, I deleted Linux and installed (shudder) Windows.
The card worked great! Fast connection, better than my iBook even. But I was running Windows. I had been over 2 years without that rickety OS and I didn’t really like the feeling of being back on such unstable ground.
Ray and I were talking one night. He was saying he wanted to get back into Linux ’cause he’d never picked it up all the way and I was thinking that myself as as way to get rid of Redmond’s influence. Ray stumbled across Ubuntu somehow. I had seen the distribution floating around the Linux world before, but had never given it a second thought, being faithful to my old distro.
One of the awesome things about Ubuntu (besides running a good kernel, Gnome, and being Debian based, and damn fun to say) is that they’ll mail CDs to you. I know, I know, with high-speed internet and CD burners on the cheap that’s kind of a moot feature, but it’s pretty unique in any case. I signed up for two i386 and two PPC copies (I have family interested in Linux that can use ‘em). They haven’t arrived yet and I was a bit anxious once Ray had his download installed and running, so I snagged a copy of it for myself and installed on Sunday.
The install was perfect. Took me about an hour total to go from Windows to Linux with no real hiccups. I’ve been working on getting the Mac to play nicely with it for the last few days and it’s almost there. I can connect through SSH and FTP and the Linux box is running an install of Apache and MySQL (and PHP of course). VNC seems to be working, too, so all I’m missing is direct disc mounting through Samba or AppleTalk. I’m happy with FTP most of the time, though, so I’m not too worried about it.
I know that was all a bunch of gobbledy-gook to many of you, but it’s very satisfying to get my system back up and running. Anyone else out there had such experiences with Linux?