FF 3.0 beta5 went down on Saturday and never came back up. OpenSUSE had a backup browser installed on KDE(I dont remember on Gnome, as FF never went down) and hence I never faced such a problem.
Archive for September, 2008
Hopefully all is final
Now I am on Fedora 9. I am liking this a little bit and I think I am going to stick to this distro. Until the distro doesnt fail me. Maybe I will do a small compare of the 3 distros that I had tried.
Darn it… I hate linux
Why oh why does there have to be choice? Its good to have a choice… Its bad to be bombarded by a flurry of choices where I dont know what the hell to do?
So… I am trying to get my priorities right.
Why do I need linux?
I need it so that I can use free software instead of pirating costly stuff that I am not going to buy for sure.
I need it so that I can do my development and concentrate on development without worrying about the intricacies of the distro.
Entertainment Weekly
If there is one thing that I appreciate about linux, it is that it keeps you totally occupied. Come to think of it, I have spent more time administering linux, and just getting it to work correctly and how I want it, than using it productively, or even timepass-ively. More interesting… is that I have spent more time non-administratively on linux, than I have collectively spent administering anything on any version of windows that I have ever run. Considering that I have hardly spent any time non-administratively on linux, it is testament to the user friendliness of Windows.
Compare Ubuntu vs openSUSE vs Fedora
Ok… This has been a record of sorts set by me. I have tried 2 different distros in a single day and 3 distros in 2 weeks.
Life as usual with Linux
As usual, my PC hates linux. The partition went kaput a couple of days back and even the auto fsck failed. I had to manuall fsck my partition and only after that was I able to boot into the xserver. Now the GUI keeps throwing some stupid errors and keep graying out and hanging very often. I’m totally irritated and bored with this.
Initial gripes
After the successful and hard installation of openSUSE on gnome 2.22, there are quite a few shortcoming that have affected me in linux which have prevented me from making a complete switch to linux for all my personal activities. I have listed them below and I hope to blog about how I have resolved these in the later posts in this blog.
Linux Distros & being comfortable with them
As I am trying to get my hands dirty on openSUSE and forever contemplating on whether to move back to Ubuntu or not, I was thinking about my journey through the various linux distributions that I have tried.
Settling down – Take 3+
Finally settling down on this installation of openSUSE. I was debating like crazy on whether to go for Ubuntu or retain openSUSE. I had also considered installing Gentoo on the box. I still have reserved a partition for Gentoo, but the thing is, it takes a hell lot of time to compile and install and I don’t have such time at a stretch. Moreover, with the state of the power supply in Bangalore, there is no way that I can have even a continuous 24 hour power supply and I don’t know what will happen to the installation should it fail midway. So for now Gentoo is out of the question.
A Talk by Subroto Bagchi
Speech is quite a hard term and something I don’t want to use. When I hear the word speech it is something that strikes me as boring and uninteresting. I am not getting a better word for it, but it is something that lies in between speech and (info)session. Or to take the official word that was used for this event, it was called a ‘Talk by Subroto Bagchi’. A speech is something like a one-way communication where a guy comes on stage and gives gyaan while most of the audience is sleeping. This session was not just a one-way communication. It was more interactive in a different sort of way.