The latest version of Ubuntu(v10.4) came up as an option in the updates.\u00c2\u00a0 Went ahead and let it install and the upgrade was very smooth.\u00c2\u00a0 One moment of head scratching due to a query window regarding options for the upgrade to the “Grub” boot loader, but everything seems to have worked.\u00c2\u00a0 The transition was mostly seamless.<\/p>\n
The upgrade process did not seem to make any changes to the LAMPP install, which was a good thing.\u00c2\u00a0 Shoulda backed up the config files in there, but didn’t – so its good that the install went so smoothly.<\/p>\n
Been tinkering with bash scripting, which for the most part is easy to pick up. I’m still a Linux mega-noob, but I can see why programmers like it.\u00c2\u00a0 I wish Linux had been at this level 12 years ago.\u00c2\u00a0 The folk working on the Ubuntu distro have done a lot of good things to improve the ease of use and ease of install issues – a commendable acheivement. Still having issues with networking to the windows boxes, which is certainly due to the dumb user.[Linux can access the WinXP shares, but not Win7, and no Win flavor can access Linux.]<\/p>\n
I can see becoming accustomed to Linux for daily tasks, except for the few pesky windows apps which have no serious alternatives on the Linux platform.\u00c2\u00a0 Like a fully functioned contest logging program – at least that I have found.<\/p>\n
N4AF has been tinkering with the port of TR to windows, TR4W.\u00c2\u00a0 Not sure that’s the first choice for me.\u00c2\u00a0 I know that SD is supposed to work in Linux under WINE, but SD may be a bit too bare bones for the things I like in a contest logger.\u00c2\u00a0 Time to start experimenting more seriously with Linux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The latest version of Ubuntu(v10.4) came up as an option in the updates.\u00c2 Went ahead and let it install and the upgrade was very smooth.\u00c2 One moment of head scratching due to a query window regarding options for the upgrade to the “Grub” boot loader, but everything seems to have worked.\u00c2 The transition was mostly seamless.<\/p>\n
The upgrade process did not seem to make any changes to the LAMPP install, which was a good thing.\u00c2 Shoulda backed up the config files in there, but didn’t – so its good that the install went so smoothly.<\/p>\n
Been tinkering with bash scripting, which for the most part is easy to pick up. I’m still a Linux mega-noob, but I can see why programmers like it.\u00c2 I wish Linux had been at this level 12 years ago.\u00c2 The folk working on the Ubuntu distro have done a lot of good things to improve the ease of use and ease of install issues – a commendable acheivement. Still having issues with networking to the windows boxes, which is certainly due to the dumb user.[Linux can access the WinXP shares, but not Win7, and no Win flavor can access Linux.]<\/p>\n
I can see becoming accustomed to Linux for daily tasks, except for the few pesky windows apps which have no serious alternatives on the Linux platform.\u00c2 Like a fully functioned contest logging program – at least that I have found.<\/p>\n
N4AF has been tinkering with the port of TR to windows, TR4W.\u00c2 Not sure that’s […]<\/p>\n