My thoughts on life, the universe and beer

Howdy,

A thought….Operating systems are nothing else then a application. If you think about it, operating systems are just another application or a tool to accomplish a goal.

If you start to think about operating systems as a tool you start to see a simple picture. Operating system X is a nice tool to accomplish project Y or Z, but operating system H is a better tool for project L.

This is something i learned after meeting a brilliant Microsoft solution architect. This thought is something everyone needs to get into there heads. This makes life so much simpler.

Solutions need to be flexible, dynamic etc etc. However, if you start a solution by saying to your self: “I’m going to use Linux as a operating system for this solution” before knowing what the solution (application) it self is going to be you’ve failed the system designer 101 course …..

Just wanted to share this ….i really do think this is something everyone should have in there minds before choosing a operating system/application for your projects.

Laters,
Finnzi

Howdy,

Last night before i went out i started a network install from the local mirror on my new workstation of Fedora 8. When i woke up hungover this morning i started configuring my new workstation and in about 20 minutes i was up2date (781MB of updates!:)) and ready to roll. I mounted my data from my local fileserver through NFS and installed my Fluendo gstreamer codecs and wow ..it did not take more then 20 minutes to finish pretty much everything. Tonight i installed lm_sensors & the sensor applet for gnome and after running sensors_detect everything was ready. Some people say that configuring Linux is horrible and complicated …But man, configuring Windows on a fresh machine takes a whole lot more then 20 minutes :O…..

Of course i am not the casual home user so i guess that is part of why i am somewhat quicker to configure my desktop installs, but however configuring Windows Vista or Windows XP takes me a whole lot more then 20 minutes.

On my work machine i am running Windows Vista SP1 with great success, however i would like to run Fedora on that machine however i was unable to get suspend to work correctly and i have a dual display setup at work that i was unable to use after waking up after putting my puter asleep at home and reconnecting it to my docking station at work.

I am going to do a Fedora install when Fedora 9 is out on that machine and try it out but as of now i am very happy with the Vista install on that laptop. I must say although that Windows release is being judged a lot for being slow, un-usable etc etc i cannot say that my experience is bad. I am able to do my work, use my laptop as a laptop meaning that i can sleep/wake up, extend display to a new monitor without rebooting etc etc.

Well …going back to have some fun with my fancy new workstation …laters:)

Finnzi