After years of proclaimed nerdery, I’ve finally decided to take the Linux plunge. That’s not to say that I’ve never used Linux before, but as nerdy as I am, it’s taken me a while to really get excited about switching from Windows to Linux on any of my day-to-day use machines. I’ve tried a few flavors of Linux in the past, but I always ended up having so much difficulty getting things working properly that I usually just gave up before I got to any point of satisfactory stability. I had a Macbook a few years back and tried running Yellow Dog, but I could never even get that one installed. That turned me off for a while, but I eventually got curious again and Handy Randy helped me get Fedora Core running on a old Compaq Proliant server that I keep in the basement and use strictly for file storage. That machine is stable and serves it’s purpose, but it’s not really a day-to-day use sorta machine. I do have one other Linux box (an old Pentium II 200Mghz Compaq) on which I have installed a firewall build of Linux called Smoothwall which serves to protect my home network. That bad boy rocks and I highly suggest a Smoothwall for any home network with a high speed internet connection. But that machine isn’t a daily use machine either. It does get used daily, but only in the fact that its always running. I hardly ever actually have to physically manage that machine.
Enter Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft)…
