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About Me
- AM
- Raised by conservative Christian parents, enlisted in the Army at 18, used the GI Bill to finish college, and I'm back in the Army. Along the way I've encountered a huge cast of characters, some I got into trouble with, some that passed on skills that have helped me on my life journey.
Assorted Associates and Scalawags
- 3 Boxes of BS
- ammo.net
- Arctic Patriot
- Bayou Renaissance Man
- Blackfork
- Blue's Blog
- Brigid's Blog, Mausers and Muffins
- Carteach0
- Cato, The American
- DoubleTapper
- FreeThinker
- Guffaw in AZ
- Gun Rights 4 Us All
- Gunslinger
- Improved Clinch
- Irons in the Fire
- Joe Huffman
- Just Stop
- Knuckle Draggin'
- Lawdog
- Liberty Optics
- LucrativePain
- Lurking Rhythmically
- m4040
- Mad Ogre's Blog
- MFRC
- Mountain Guerilla
- Mulligan
- MyDailyKona
- Near the Salty City
- Neo-neocon
- NinePoundSledge
- Photography is Not a Crime
- Random Nuclear Strikes
- RobertaX
- SFMedic
- Sniper's Paradise
- Talk Radio Blogger
- The clue meter
- The Lizard Farmer
- The Silicon Graybeard
- Total Survivalist Libertarian Rantfest
- View From the Porch
- Walls of the City
- Zercool
4 comments:
Ununtu works pretty well. You should upgrade to the 10.04 (latest long term support) version asap as there are several security features that work well and are needed.
I've found MINT (Derived from Debian and Ubuntu) makes me a bit happier, your mileage may vary, it installs all the non-free stuff like flash by default so you don't have to do much post install configuring. Matter of taste I suppose, as I use ion as my window manager/desktop and do word processing in vi using LaTeX :-)
I switched over around MINT 7 and it was a smoother isntall than Debian or Ubuntu at the time so haven't bothered to go back. They all can use each other's packages.
I started playing with linux using Slackware 7.1 and after a weekend of trying to install it right got a completely rock solid OS.
Only problem was that I wasn't smart enough to really make use of the OS, so I moved on to FreeBSD and played around with that for a while.
I tried MINT and wasn't impressed, it wouldn't load up an X server that worked straight from the install cd, so I didn't give it a second thought. But that was ages ago, so maybe it's better now.
I started out on UNIX UNIX at dad's work in '77 on a PDP machine.
AS to PC *NIX, I don't remember which ones I tried first but I had my Slackware Era, a long BSD era and still prefer FreeBSD for servers, got Red Hat certified, dabbled with SUSE/Mandrake/lots of other ones, Gentoo for a while, Fedora for a while, Ubuntu for a while, and Mint since Mint 7 on the main desktop that's currently Mint 9. You can make them all work AND break them all too! :-)
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