The software landscape of our world is fast moving. If you look back even five years ago, it’s amazing how much has changed. Microsoft is clearly the big giant of the software world. They make all of the software we know and love, things like Windows, Office, and Outlook. Their success is so impressive, they’ve become ubiquitous. I cannot think of a single person that doesn’t have a computer powered by windows.
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I’m switching back to the copy of Windows 2000 server I bought $1,000 back in the day. Screw all this Linux stuff. Linux isn’t good for anything anyway.
Crap, it’s past noon :/
Tonight I installed Fedora Core 6. Here are my first impressions. First the installer was very easy to use, but it wasn’t a livecd which I’ve come to take for granted. Typically I would read through the distro’s documentation and things while the install is taking place. The install went off without a hitch. It booted nicely, asked a few questions… and I was looking at Gnome in no time. I intentionally took all of the defaults during the install with the exception of removing “Office and Productivity” or whatever it was called.
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Enough is enough. No more Ubuntu for me. I used it for just over two months. It’s a great distro, just not for me. I finally realized this experiment was over when Ubuntu managed to change the file system to read-only while I was in the middle of working on stuff. After that it wouldn’t boot. Because I had been working on a remote box and I didn’t have access to my ssh keys, I resorted to using Knoppix to chroot into Ubuntu so I could ssh to the remote box and finish my work.
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For some time I’ve wanted to setup encryption on my laptop and thumb drive. It would feel good knowing that if my laptop fell into the wrong hands, my private data would be secure. Though I must admit much of my desire to set this up is simply because I’m a nerd.
So the other night I worked with Jaisen to setup partition based encryption using dm-crypt and luks. I was really impressed how easy it was, and how robust the features seem to be.
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At my new job I’m itching to start rolling on a Gentoo box… my days on win32 are almost over! I’ve been working on a shiny new image for the past few days. Tonight I rolled it into a stage4 tarball and installed it on a new 100g Seagate disk. Tomorrow morning I’ll finally have a nice Linux box to work with.
Earlier today I was talking to Jaisen who’s adding ethernet throttling support to his gear.
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