Comments on: No, I didn’t consider Linux. http://www.sameoldschmidt.com/2008/04/02/no-i-didnt-consider-linux/ Under construction, gimme a minute to figure this out... Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:46:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: spkthed http://www.sameoldschmidt.com/2008/04/02/no-i-didnt-consider-linux/#comment-681 spkthed Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:50:46 +0000 http://www.sameoldschmidt.com/?p=137#comment-681 I'm a big fan of Fedora, it's all you'd need for a workstation... it is a little bit less focused on ease-of-use for the desktop than is Ubuntu but the userbase is competent IT workers vs.... the moronic Digg userbase of Ubuntu. There's others out there, but most distros have LiveCD's out there. Fedora 9 comes out at the end of April. As a bonus, if you run into snags with Fedora... you've got my email address :) I’m a big fan of Fedora, it’s all you’d need for a workstation… it is a little bit less focused on ease-of-use for the desktop than is Ubuntu but the userbase is competent IT workers vs…. the moronic Digg userbase of Ubuntu.

There’s others out there, but most distros have LiveCD’s out there. Fedora 9 comes out at the end of April.

As a bonus, if you run into snags with Fedora… you’ve got my email address :)

]]> By: Jeff http://www.sameoldschmidt.com/2008/04/02/no-i-didnt-consider-linux/#comment-638 Jeff Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:49:27 +0000 http://www.sameoldschmidt.com/?p=137#comment-638 It is slow. My thing is... I've got my set of things that I do on my PC and I'm afraid to learn how to do it all in Linux. Any Live CDs that you can recommend? Something that would "wow" me and make me consider switching? It is slow. My thing is… I’ve got my set of things that I do on my PC and I’m afraid to learn how to do it all in Linux.

Any Live CDs that you can recommend? Something that would “wow” me and make me consider switching?

]]> By: beerorkid http://www.sameoldschmidt.com/2008/04/02/no-i-didnt-consider-linux/#comment-637 beerorkid Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:25:46 +0000 http://www.sameoldschmidt.com/?p=137#comment-637 I finally restored my laptop and let vista have 50gb so I could play with it. No need to bash vista here, but the linux partition on the machine just screams and the vista is horrible. It is not a powerful laptop so I did not expect much, but I am floored by how slow vista makes it seem. Doubt I will ever get XP on it, but it would be interesting to see how it performs on it. I finally restored my laptop and let vista have 50gb so I could play with it. No need to bash vista here, but the linux partition on the machine just screams and the vista is horrible. It is not a powerful laptop so I did not expect much, but I am floored by how slow vista makes it seem. Doubt I will ever get XP on it, but it would be interesting to see how it performs on it.

]]> By: Jeff http://www.sameoldschmidt.com/2008/04/02/no-i-didnt-consider-linux/#comment-617 Jeff Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:01:56 +0000 http://www.sameoldschmidt.com/?p=137#comment-617 Ha! :D Linux is always one of those things that "I'll get around to later..." I have a Unix textbook that I've been meaning to study; it would be good for my career to develop proficiency with Unix/Linux. Ha! :D

Linux is always one of those things that “I’ll get around to later…”

I have a Unix textbook that I’ve been meaning to study; it would be good for my career to develop proficiency with Unix/Linux.

]]> By: spkthed http://www.sameoldschmidt.com/2008/04/02/no-i-didnt-consider-linux/#comment-615 spkthed Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:58:03 +0000 http://www.sameoldschmidt.com/?p=137#comment-615 Did you consider Linux? Did you consider Linux?

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