ubuntu

Hardy Heron was officially released last week and has been receiving rave reviews across the Internet. I had upgraded my home machine to the beta version of Hardy about a week before the official release and must say I was impressed . I waited for the official release before upgrading my work laptop.

On my home machine I have been running Gentoo for years. Using Gentoo has been a real good, if some what painful way to learn how Linux works deep down inside and how open source applications come together to provide a complete solution . Over time though the productivity drain has just become too much. After my last kernel recompile my audio went. The latest alsa drivers would not work, so I thought - stuff it. Time to switch the last remaining computer to Ubuntu. Now I can have bleeding edge without the pain.

Recently one of our client's old AIX boxes, which had been reduced to being a server for some old Sunix dumb terminals, after its heyday as the financial system server, died on them leaving their warehouse without computer access.