{"id":51,"date":"2007-11-12T10:19:19","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T16:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/the-journey-to-linux-is-a-long-road\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T10:19:19","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T16:19:19","slug":"the-journey-to-linux-is-a-long-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/the-journey-to-linux-is-a-long-road\/","title":{"rendered":"The journey to Linux is a long road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a UNIX sysadmin, I&#8217;ve long since wanted to ditch running Windows XP on my work laptop.\u00c2\u00a0 Not due to a dislike of Windows XP &#8211; I think it&#8217;s the best desktop OS Microsoft has &#8211; but more of the g33k status.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;I run LINUX.\u00c2\u00a0 Neener.\u00c2\u00a0 Neener.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The issue at hand is Linux is still growing up.\u00c2\u00a0 4 years ago there wasn&#8217;t anything for running Linux day to day.\u00c2\u00a0 Today, there&#8217;s many flavors of Linux, many of which go nicely with Windows XP and maybe a trip to the liquor store (to ease the sting).\u00c2\u00a0 I started with OpenSuSE, ever got past the install and then used Ubuntu. \u00c2\u00a0 Upon reading the review of 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon), I took the leap.<\/p>\n<p>I had 30g free on my hard drive, plenty for a Linux install when all my data was already in Windows NTFS.\u00c2\u00a0 Ubuntu loaded nicely, and even found and MOUNTED my Windows partition.\u00c2\u00a0 I browsed over to it, opened Excel and Powerpoint files in OpenOffice &#8211; no problem.\u00c2\u00a0 Browsing thru Firefox and Opera were fine.\u00c2\u00a0 The kicker was wireless.<\/p>\n<p>While the system connected to me wireless OK, I found frequent hangs and interruptions in my wireless that didn&#8217;t happen in XP.\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday, after sitting for several hours, the system just forgot how to use the wireless card.\u00c2\u00a0 That was the last straw for me.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m back in XP for a while.<\/p>\n<p>The next step?\u00c2\u00a0 maybe gOS.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve heard that desktop makers are starting to use that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a UNIX sysadmin, I&#8217;ve long since wanted to ditch running Windows XP on my work laptop.\u00c2\u00a0 Not due to a dislike of Windows XP &#8211; I think it&#8217;s the best desktop OS Microsoft has &#8211; but more of the g33k status.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;I run LINUX.\u00c2\u00a0 Neener.\u00c2\u00a0 Neener.&#8221; The issue at hand is Linux is still &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/2007\/11\/12\/the-journey-to-linux-is-a-long-road\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The journey to Linux is a long road&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-tech","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eb30-P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stringer.cc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}