View From The Porch: Geekery.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

This week's Low End Mac column is up. It has many geeky words, like "Linux" and "gestalt" and "geekery".

Turk Turon said...: Linux? I'm there!

Uh, what about Ubuntu?; 3:22 PM, June 24, 2008
Anonymous said...: Longtime Windows and Linux user here and just recently got my first Mac. The Mac is very alien to me. I'm going to give it a fair trial, but I'm not sure it will ever dislodge Windows or Linux.

Regarding Linux, I think it has finally come into it's own. Prior to a few days ago, the newest distro I had used was a 4yo copy of SuSE Linux. It worked, but like most previous distros, it felt like a disjointed collection of tools, not really all that well integrated. Unbuntu 8.04 feels really tight to me and contains all the tools to make a modern system work. I could easily see it replacing Windows on the desktop next time I have to make that choice. I might not be using Windows past XP...

Chris; 5:16 PM, June 24, 2008

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