Well, I gave windows seven a go, and overall I was impressed. I got an email from microsoft thanking me for beta testing and informing me that in the next comming months the beta would start shutting down every two hours.
I could have switched to the win7 RC, but it seemed like a natural time to switch OS’s. It seemed that ultimately I knew I would not pay for the final release of windows seven so back to linux.
I tried Debian the linux distro that Ubuntu is based on, installation was fine, but I could not get it to detect my Linksys (ralink chipset) wireless card.
I tried gentoo again not easilly detecting my wireless card.
I turned to sabayon which is based on the gentoo disribution, but is more focused on the desktop market. It detected my wireless out of the box; I also had open office, gimp, g++, and javac.
So, far I am impressed with the look, feel and toolset of sabayon … I am using sabayon Gnome.
its here! well almost.
ok … I could not wait “update-manager -d” I am on file 750 of 1353.
* http://www.ubuntu.com/ <– you can get the release candidate now. The official release is coming.
* http://digg.com/d1ota5 <– the 5 best things about Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
I installed windows seven to a hard drive that already had GNU/Ubuntu/Linux on it. Windows booted and worked, but linux and grub did not. I reconfigured grub and then just Ubuntu worked.
When booting a gparted disk I could still see the windows install just not boot it.
So after about 22 google searches and adjustments on grub I decided to try to use the windows seven disk to try to rescue the win7 install. I fully expected that best case scenario would be that I could boot win7, but not Linux.
I was wrong!! Grub is still there. I can boot Ubuntu A N D Windows 7!!! I am astounded! It works.
Save money and be more productive?
http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7232/1.html this article states that the Obama administration is taking a look at the opportunity to save money and time by going Open Source where it makes sense. ~SP
I have been using open source technologies in the classroom for four years now. This is my first year going totally open source. My computer classes love it; we use FreeBSD as the OS, g++ compiler, mediawiki engine for wiki collaboration, both KDE and Gnome GUI’s, and a plethera of IDEs.
This is pretty straight forward, but what really impressed me this year was when I got the “non” tech kids (still digital natives, but not guru’s), onto the computers. There was a tiny learning curve (I anticipated much more hand holding), but they just took to it, they found the web browsers, openoffice, and just set about their research and writing there rough drafts.
I had this idea that they would be afraid of a different OS (there were a few), but by and large is was nothing they just used the computer. Go open source!
~SP
Some technologies I use:
Macintosh: I have been using macintosh since Mac OS 8 and currently use Mac OS X (v. 10.4) for desktop publishing (text, pictures, and video) at a home workstation iMac.
Linux: Currently using Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) for the same desktop publishing tasks, and programming in C, C++, and web development.
FreeBSD: I have been using FreeBSD since the 4.5 release. It is my webserver. It runs this blog, my wiki, my homepage, and I love it. The version I currently run is FreeBSD 7.0 STABLE.
Apache: Apache 2.something is my webserver and it loves me and I love it.
I also use PHP, Perl to implement web interfaces and I love them too.
MySQL powers the wiki, wordpress, moodle and drupal (drupal is currently broken) installs.
* Problems with sound [Audigy sound card] –>
Double Click Master Volume control [ top right of screen ] , click on the switches tab, uncheck Audigy Analog/Digital Output Jack –> then sound worked for me.
* Firefox 3 :: is not properly displaying http://jasperstreet.homeip.net …. just spins and spins.
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