The penguin and me.

Posted on October 6th, 2006 in Blogging, Huh?.

Tux the PenguinYes my friends … the inevitable has happened.  I have fallen in love … with a penguin.  After a long on-off relationship with it, after much walking-out and steps of faith , the penguin now lives with me.  Who would’a thunk it?  Tux now inhabits and manages the bowels of my laptop, and my desktop computers. 

I guess I got tired of the computer crashes, bugs, mal ware, spy ware, add ware, viruses, Trojans, worms, lost emails, lost documents, patches, upgrades, security vulnerabilities and the  drain on my very ‘micro’ economy to eventually  switch to Linux.

More later.

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  1. carl says:

    Added on October 11th, 2006 at 6:17 pm

    Couple of Qs. Did you do a second OS or is it the primary? Do you have a link to a tute on this? Did you have any problems with drivers?

    I have a Toshiba that I tried to do a disk restore but as it turns out the original restore disks are corrupt and they want $40 for replacements. (not) I was thinking of trying this but was afraid I would never be able to network again.

  2. John Baw (blog author) says:

    Added on October 12th, 2006 at 2:58 pm

    Carl, I am NO expert (Believe me) but my switch to Ubuntu linux was as pain free as any windows installation I have ever done. All I did was download the CD (Its a LiveCD so you get to boot up from it, and play with it for as long as you want without having to install to disk) and follow the instructions! I use a Sony Vaio FX601 laptop (About three years old) and it loves Ubuntu Linux - I got rid of Windows XP altogether and just use Linux. My windows setup was just constantly grinding to a halt.

    I have managed to network it without any probs at work, I receive my Wi-Fi OK, I use its “OpenOffice” suite open and use Word/Excel docs and then save them back to Word/Excel.

    BTW, my brother’s office was gutted by a fire recently and smoke damage ruined his PCs (Its OK - Insurance claim replaced everything) - he gave me one to see if could do something with it. Does it work with windows? - NOPE! Does it work with Linux ? - YOU BET!

    You may want to check out my del.icio.us links on this:
    http://del.icio.us/John_Baw/Linux
    http://del.icio.us/John_Baw/ubuntu

    Be blessed by the penguin!

    John.

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