OS

*stealthily easing back into the whole blogging thing, hoping no one will notice my absence (honestly I'd be pretty shocked if anyone did)*

I recently decided to give up on Ubuntu, for my main computer at least.
It just was causing me all kinds of problems that eventually I got fed up with it and decided to try my hand at something else.
Don't get me wrong Ubuntu is great, ...just not right for me (truth be told I think my computer is to blame, I suspect that maybe as a young calculator my computer was kicked by someone that looked like me and thus holds a grudge ... of course I can't prove any of that ...yet)

I figured I'd try my hand at Fedora, it's pretty user-friendly and is very similar to ubuntu in many ways, and after getting off to a kinda rocky start with the whole installing process (a story for another time) things are going ...fairly well (despite running into some problems) ...another reason why I despise dell and especially my school's laptop program ...I swear it's like they're trying to screw people over.

Fedora like any gnu/linux OS distribution is a learning experience, luckily there are tons of documentation, online resources (google!), books, etc out there (one of my professors works for red hat, so you can be sure I'll be asking him for help on a regular basis)

I'm thinking that in my spare time I'm going to re-purpose a few computers that happen to be lying around into better, faster linux boxes, the physics dept at my school gave me and a friend a few computers that they were going to throw out, to use for projects as we saw fit, the idea at first was to create a beowulf cluster, but we probably won't do that as it'd be a lot of work for something we really have no use for (we just wanted to do it, for the fun of building something, but it's hard to be motivated if there's no real underlying purpose or use for it)

So I might try this out on a few of those computers see if I can't get them working better, and learn something in the process. The way I see it if anything goes wrong, it doesn't matter (they were garbage anyway) and so I'll try a couple of other distros like: slackware, gentoo, opensuse, debian, maybe even tip my toes into the realm of BSD OS's ...we'll see what happens.

I'll try and post some updates regarding this online (who knows, maybe it'll be kinda interesting?) and I'll try and go back to regular posting and whatnot, I've been sitting on a bunch of stuff that I wanted to post, but I just hadn't the time and/or motivation to do so, hopefully that'll change