CrackHappy's Journal: Home Linux - Mandrake

So I've started using Mandrake Linux 9.1 at home.

So far, I'm SO damned pleased with it. Playing AA:O on it, and it's sweet, as well as Q3A, RA3, and some other Linux games too. It's so damned stable and works so very well on my 1533mhz AMD Athlon XP.

I'm still a noob on Linux, so I'm not completely comfortable yet with how it works, but I'm very impressed with the way it handles security, how user accounts work, the File System setups, and how easy it was to set it up to see and use my Windows NTFS drives. I also love the LILO boot manager, it's so nice to be able to dual-boot so easily. Personally, I don't think I'll ever using anything like VMWare, too much overhead for so little gain.

I like Gnome so far, prefer it over KDE. Xfree86 seems to work ok, I'm not sure what all the hullaballoo lately over it is all about.

Seems like I need to get a book or a class to really get to the point where I can start doing some more interesting things with it. I'm interested in learning Perl and/or PHP to brush up on some non-Microsoft skillsets that have been languishing. I remember writing some pretty wacky eggdrop scripts in perl a long time ago, in an OS far far away.