wskellenger's Journal: Using Linux for one year.

It's been a year since I've been using Linux.

For me, using Linux has become a hobby. I've got a box next to me on the floor that's ripped apart still, happily ripping another of my CD collection to it's internal hard drive. It uses a $25 wirless card to go out and get album covers from the internet. I never have to type in a song or album name, it goes out to the CDDB and gets that info too.

The box that I type this from is a PIII 800, and it still runs so quickly that I don't see much reason to upgrade it.

I've learned Perl and some Python. I'm learning shell scripting. I've learned a lot about networking. I can install and maintain a webserver. The fact that thousands of people all work together on the different software packages is just too cool.

I haven't booted into Windows in months. In fact, I've considered using that hard drive for something useful.

There is one remaining open issue: Turbo Tax. Come tax time I may be forced to use Windows for that... I think they may offer an online version of their software? I'm not sure.