On distribution of Linux programs. In response to the painful article, I’d like to touch the topic of a handy and easy way to install programs under Linux.

In my anxious haste I’ve decided to try out Fedora 11 Alpha on my Tablet PC… I don’t expect many things work correctly but I figured it was worth trying out. To start with my tablet has a AMD Turion x2 64 so I downloaded this live cd torrent. My overall experience was as follows...

After having gone over 2009.0, both Free (on my desktop) and One (on my laptop), I feel that Mandriva 2009 is much improved, I’ll go over some talking points here.

A mixed bag of jokes today. Both hilarious... unless you don't like them ;)

A good friend of mine, who is very computer savvy, recently bought a new computer and installed Ubuntu on it rather than Windows. Now, despite being a very smart guy when it comes to PCs and Windows, he was still a newbie to the world of Ubuntu, so he and I went through a series of questions and answers before, during, and after his Ubuntu install.

Booting, or "bootstrapping" for us older folk, is that deeply mysterious sequence of operations performed by your computer between the moment when you switch it on and the moment it's ready for you to log in.

I grew up dirt-poor in the middle of West Virginia on my grandparents' stories of the Great Depression. We're not even close to being that bad yet. But, when it's you without a job, when you're not able to draw a paycheck, that's cold comfort. One ray of light in this misery economy though is that there are still some Linux jobs.

I have read this article and asking if Ubuntu has reached a plateau. I have read a few responses of what should be a desktop is or should be, an evolution or revolution. Well, the desktop war could never end just as real wars around the world come and go. But what is it to me? I am just an average end-user that preferred to try out Ubuntu. And Ubuntu calls itself the "Linux for human beings".