Comments on: In Brief http://mkelley.net/2006/03/25/in-brief-2/ Mon, 18 May 2009 21:21:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Al http://mkelley.net/2006/03/25/in-brief-2/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Al Tue, 28 Mar 2006 13:54:24 +0000 http://assets.ourmusicchattanooga.com/testing/2006/03/25/in-brief-2/#comment-74 I have recently dove into Linux with a vengeance. Man, things have changed since my Red Hat disaster of '03. Modern distros are cake to install. The barrier to entry is remarkably low and the three distros I'm testing (Ubuntu, Kbuntu and Mandriva) all grabbed up my peripherals and network without so much as a hiccup. I'm not ready to give up Photoshop and gaming yet so will always need a Windows box to run them and for testing, but I can safely say that 80% of my time is spent using Mandriva. This is also my most productive time. I can finally speak the same language that the servers I administer speak and the more I delve into the command line the more I like it. Wicked powerful stuff. One wee tip. If your burning the OS take the time to check the md5 hash. I skipped it a couple of times and lost a few hours unecessarily. Also, if Ubuntu appeals to you they will be happy to send you disks at no cost. They say several weeks but I had mine in a matter of days. I have recently dove into Linux with a vengeance. Man, things have changed since my Red Hat disaster of ’03.

Modern distros are cake to install. The barrier to entry is remarkably low and the three distros I’m testing (Ubuntu, Kbuntu and Mandriva) all grabbed up my peripherals and network without so much as a hiccup.

I’m not ready to give up Photoshop and gaming yet so will always need a Windows box to run them and for testing, but I can safely say that 80% of my time is spent using Mandriva. This is also my most productive time. I can finally speak the same language that the servers I administer speak and the more I delve into the command line the more I like it. Wicked powerful stuff.

One wee tip. If your burning the OS take the time to check the md5 hash. I skipped it a couple of times and lost a few hours unecessarily. Also, if Ubuntu appeals to you they will be happy to send you disks at no cost. They say several weeks but I had mine in a matter of days.

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