Adventures As Me

GOG, if you haven’t heard, is a way to purchase older games that work on newer systems. Many of the games are from the late 90’s and early 2000’s (although there are a few older than that), designed for either MS-DOS or the MS-Windows 9x line of operating systems. As such, some of the games [...]

At work we debated adding OpenSUSE 11 as
an officially supported platform[ 1]. In the past, when doing this, I’ve
preferred using the targeted platform exclusively for an extended period. For
various reasons, this hasn’t been feasible this time. While testing time has
been devoted to it, that doesn’t give one the same familiarity as using it for daily [...]

Years ago, I registered my Linux workstation with the Linux Counter project. Each year I receive a reminder from them to update my registration. Which I have, even adding servers and more workstations. Each year I marvel at the usability issues of the site, which (according to my memory) has looked the same for the [...]

There was a time when Mandrake generated a lot of excitement and talk within the Linux community. The first distro to use egcs, compiling the binaries for Pentium class processors. Then the first to put a lot of focus on first time Linux useres by developing simple to use wizards and control panel applets (among [...]

During the past few weeks, I’ve had opportunity to install more than my fairshare of GNU/Linux distributions. Indeed, likely I installed more distributionsthe last three months than the prior 10+ years of using GNU/Linux. The distributions installed are:

cAos i386, x86_64
CentOS 3 i386, x86_64
CentOS 4 i386, x86_64
Fedora Core 1,2,3,4,5 i386, x86_64 (for [...]