penguin_nipple's Journal: Replaced Laptop and other tidbits

Well today seems to be fairly exclusively devoted to setting up my new HP5415, which was replaced last night. I had it replaced as my original unit had one pixel stuck in bright green mode. Anyhow, same machine, everything is perfect. I am working on XP first, then gonna go with Slackware 8.0, although the recently referred to story on /. regarding Sorceror Linux seems interesting.

Interesting from a curiosity standpoint though. I generally rebuild my software from source (kernel, libs and desktops) anyhow. But from an installation and curiosity standpoint, I am considering giving it a whirl. Why not eh?

Even though the best distro's for me are (1) Slackware (2) Debian, I have a place in my heart for doing things in Linux by hand. See, I am not an OSS zealot or anything. I actually use windows on a regular basis. I need to in order to do work, porting software to win32 is hard on a linux box :) I also like Solaris alot too. So anyhow, yes, I use windows, I don't mind it too much 2K is a stable client at home and XP on my laptop seems stable thus far. XP is irritating, popping up bubbles and registering me for stuff, etc. But thats a normal MS thing and is solvable via tweaking things about.

Since I am on the topic of Distro's and OS'es, I would never even consider running an NT server. Now thats just me. MS makes a decent client, a crap server which is over priced, under functional (unless you buy thousands of dollars of add ons) and not nearly stable enough to be considered useful. I much prefer either FreeBSD or Slackware Linux for server side duties. Both simply because I am extremely comfortable with configuring and locking down both....

Anyhow what was I talking about before I started rambling? I dunnnnno....*yawn*