Oh, and the other thing that's been keeping me busy is that we just bought a house. This picture doesn't do it justice - it's lovely - so I'll try to post a better one tomorrow
Here's the Bougainvilla on the side:
Monday, October 27, 2003
Sunday, October 26, 2003
Too Busy To Blog
I've spent most of the weekend reinstalling the Brick (my aging, 4.5kg Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop) because I'd bought a 802.11b wireless card (Netgear MA401) for it and figured I'd finally get around to upgrading to SuSE Linux 8.1 (esp. since 9.0 is about to come out).
It's been painful, especially compared to the ease of getting my iMac up and going. Like having to rebuild the kernel in order to run Oracle. And downloading the Yast2-nis-client -2.6.14-120.noarch.rpm because the shipped version (2.6.14-58) errors out during install. And changing "bind prism2_cs" to "bind orinoco_cs" in /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf because the MA401 uses the Orinoco chipset, not the Prism chipset. But you knew that, right? I'll leave out the rest, but there's a lot more.
I love Linux. But it still has a really long way to go. When I can install a distribution error-free and then get Mozilla, Oracle, Java, Netbeans, Apache, MoveableType, MySQL, TCL/TK, etc., installed (I want the latest versions, not the shipped ones), configured, tweaked to suit my preferences, and ready for business within 8 hours - without hair-tearing and endless Google searches - I'll be happy, and I'll believe Linux is ready for prime time. But until then, the "Geeks Only" sign needs to stay up.
On the plus side, I actually like Gnome now that they've added Nautilus and some of the other Eazel stuff. And I still really hate the loathsome monstrosity that is KDE, absolutely the worst, ugliest GUI this side of Windows 2.0 (yes, I'm old enough to have seen and scorned both 1.0 and 2.0 when they came out). KDE looks and feels like some brain-damaged script kiddie's idea of a UI - which, I assume, is the core constituency for its user base.
I'll probably end up going back to WindowMaker since all I do is use Netbeans, Mozilla, and shell windows - plus I like the minimalism - but it's nice to see that some real progress is being made here.
But it still all needs a lot more polish before normal folks (as opposed to geeks like me) can use it.
I've spent most of the weekend reinstalling the Brick (my aging, 4.5kg Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop) because I'd bought a 802.11b wireless card (Netgear MA401) for it and figured I'd finally get around to upgrading to SuSE Linux 8.1 (esp. since 9.0 is about to come out).
It's been painful, especially compared to the ease of getting my iMac up and going. Like having to rebuild the kernel in order to run Oracle. And downloading the Yast2-nis-client -2.6.14-120.noarch.rpm because the shipped version (2.6.14-58) errors out during install. And changing "bind prism2_cs" to "bind orinoco_cs" in /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf because the MA401 uses the Orinoco chipset, not the Prism chipset. But you knew that, right? I'll leave out the rest, but there's a lot more.
I love Linux. But it still has a really long way to go. When I can install a distribution error-free and then get Mozilla, Oracle, Java, Netbeans, Apache, MoveableType, MySQL, TCL/TK, etc., installed (I want the latest versions, not the shipped ones), configured, tweaked to suit my preferences, and ready for business within 8 hours - without hair-tearing and endless Google searches - I'll be happy, and I'll believe Linux is ready for prime time. But until then, the "Geeks Only" sign needs to stay up.
On the plus side, I actually like Gnome now that they've added Nautilus and some of the other Eazel stuff. And I still really hate the loathsome monstrosity that is KDE, absolutely the worst, ugliest GUI this side of Windows 2.0 (yes, I'm old enough to have seen and scorned both 1.0 and 2.0 when they came out). KDE looks and feels like some brain-damaged script kiddie's idea of a UI - which, I assume, is the core constituency for its user base.
I'll probably end up going back to WindowMaker since all I do is use Netbeans, Mozilla, and shell windows - plus I like the minimalism - but it's nice to see that some real progress is being made here.
But it still all needs a lot more polish before normal folks (as opposed to geeks like me) can use it.
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