The number of dupes on Slashdot lately have seriously hindered my enthusiasm for the space. The editors can use a content manager, or content cop. Or some way to grep a submission before it gets to an editor.

Dupe checking doesn't seem to be on the staff's workflow. And it should be. Seriously.

Ubuntu beats the snot out of FINK. KDE and Gnome are simply stunning and all the bling is there, quite unlike the FINK distribution. Package management is excellent. A no brainer, really. The only thing FINK has going for it that the default install is a compile, and native 64 bit.

After finally doing the install twenty or so times, I kid you not, I finally got ubuntu going natively on my G5. ...now I'll be really happy with ubuntu when the kernel and apps are 64bit.

Until then, I am happy enough.

This entry is being typed from Firefox on the default UBUNTU x86 desktop. Like Windows, this is dog slow. That, of course, is fixable in Linux. Moreso than in Windows. ...I wonder what a kernel recompile is like in VPC? And yes, I am a masochist. ;)

...in KDE, thanks to FINK.

A freshly compiled, 64bit Konqueror to boot. Other than Safari in OS X, if you don't roll your own, you don't get 64 bit. ...this of course means KDE is 64bit on my G5 as well. And the difference is noticeable with the 64 bit libraries.

I found out that VPC adds things to my OS to make it run slow, even when the program isn't running. So, buh-bye, VPC.

Oh, I never did get a Debian-style distro to run on the thing regardless. I've just had too many problems running distros with RPM to ever consider going back to them. Even in emulation.

And I sure wasn't going to waste hard drive space with W2K sitting there.

C'est la vie. C'est la guerre.

Since the last entry I mirrored the drives on my G5. Mirroring does help. I'm fond of both Raid 0 and 1, but unless I can mirror two striped volumes I guess I'll have to wait to get another pair of drives and an add-on disk controller. Heck, if I'm going to do that, I'm going to find a controller that does hardware raid.

Sheesh.

Macslash is posting spam as news here. Not that I was ever a big fan of the place, but it strikes me as seedy, as in, a small town with one industry does fine until the plant closes and the town council swallows their pride and lets anyone with money come in "to save the town." So out with New Bedford, in with Pottersville. Including the bars and gambling establishments. The town survives, but is no longer recognizable as suc

I really should start using this thing. By way of introduction: I am one of those Mac people. I am a convert from MS, who also spent time trying different distros of Linux over the years. The reason I went to OS X was primarily because of the BSD backend and the effortless Cocoa front end. And I always have the option of compiling/running KDE and Gnome with FINK! The best of all worlds, it seems. And honestly, I want this to be the last computer I buy for a very long time. By the