Monday, December 11, 2006

Learnin' Linux

Todd came by this weekend to help me breath some life into my 300 MHz Blueberry iBook. So far the performance is mixed. I'm not a coder, and this is my first foray into the "alternate opertaing system lifestyle." That is if you don't count OS X. Of course OS X was more polished, but what surprised me was that it seemed quicker. I installed a copy of Xubuntu Linux, thinking that due to it's lighter system requirements, it would be faster. I was wrong. It is quite a nice system. I'd like to try it on a faster setup. I was thinking about my B&W G3, but it requires special software to tell OS X a G4 chip has been transplanted into it. Xubuntu may not be able to take advantage of the extra muscle that was squeezed out of that thing. So, I will probably not worry about installing it on this system just yet. Overall, Xubuntu was more plush than I thought it would be. But, I do have quite a bit to learn.

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