rants and (hopefully) useful info
As I said in the Getting OFF Microsoft Windows (M$-win) article/post, in order to transtition away from M$, it is probably wise to start by working in the same apps on your M$ station as you will on your *nix station. Based on Microsoft Windows; apps & history I prefer to use the ones below…
As I said in the Getting OFF Microsoft Windows (M$-win) article/post, in order to transtition away from M$, it is probably wise to start by working in the same apps on your M$ station as you will on your *nix station. Based on Microsoft Windows; apps & history I prefer to use the ones below…
For a while, I preferred ArchLinux as my personal Desktop Workstation. However, I found a few instances where I was not able to get certain apps to work reliably. I started looking into alternatives which would be equally light and configurable. This was where I decided against ubuntu – since it wanted to make all…
CentOS VERY solid and stable. I have several servers that have uptime of >500days (the very few incidences of downtime were from power issues, not OS). I did get hacked a couple of times before I learned how to use iptables adequately. Debian SOMETIMES, compatibility calls for non-CentOS. I am not a fan of…
My objective when I started experimenting with Desktop linux, was to mimic a WinX station. I would hazard a guess that this is the most likely scenario for anyone switching away from M$-windows. If they can’t keep doing their work “productively” – they are NOT going to be interested in whether the propellor heads think…
To say the very least, this is a loaded question that often sets of flaming wars and petty squabbling – neither of which are useful. My objective is to offer some alternative to M$ for anyone who wants to learn and try new things, and escape the clutches of the proprietary BS we are…
Historically… (ie. I have been doing this for a while) my first programming language was FORTRAN77 using punchcards (via an archaic mainframe). my first PC was a dual floppy drive XT (8088) with DOS and Lotus123/WordStar2000. I switched to WordPerfect after WS2k trashed my ~50 page thesis (at the speed I could type, that represented…
If you’re looking to switch, maybe start by changing your day-to-day WinX apps to the multiOS ones…get used to using those, and then you’ll be (more) comfortable when you change the underlying O/S. I started this note/article >1 year ago – got sidetracked doing things (some of which are the point of it). It’s…