February 13th, 2006
I promised myself that if I fudged up Slackware one more time, I’d install Ubuntu. So I promptly accidently deleted an include folder trying to clean up a tarslick that had spilled out its directories. That sent Slackware up fudge creek.
Downloaded Dapper Drake, the bleeding edge development version for my laptop and while I was at it Breezy Badger for an old i386 I had lying around. In the space of a day I got wireless working on my laptop and SSH working on the i386. The old i386 runs quite nicely as a server which is easily done by specifiying “server” at the boot up of the installation disk. It’s always connected to the router, so I just turn it on and away it goes, without the need for a monitor or anything. I plan to rsync my data there every week or so and Putty into it from college so I can surf the ‘net with Lynx to bypass the college filter–ASCII porno!–heh j/k I was thinking more along the lines of WinSCP so that I don’t have to keep emailing myself files.
The nice thing about it is I feel comfortable around Linux now from using Slackware. Thus I found it quite easy to get to grips with Ubuntu. I think the only thing that is radically different between the two is the philosophy:
Ubuntu:
“Ubuntu” is an ancient African word, meaning “humanity to others”. Ubuntu also means “I am what I am because of who we all are”. The Ubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world.
Slackware:
STFN! RTFM!
February 14th, 2006 at 6:38 am
Yea, Ubuntu is great. Nice to see you’re now an Ubuntu-roo, or whatever the term ought to be (as apposed to a ’slacker’). Actually, one of the prime reasons why I advocate, now use and have come to like Ubuntu so much is because of it’s philosophies.
So… where are the screenshots, eh?
And dear god, slackware.com needs a make-over.