Linux Everywhere!
- January 14, 2004
- 2 comments
I’m going through my trying out Linux phase again. I erased Panther from my PowerBook and installed Yellow Dog 3 on it. The only problem is I did a quick install and didn’t take my time customizing it and ended up with a lame install. I then decided to wipe that and install Mandrake 9.1. I got it up and running and had everything I needed on it. It was very nice, but when I tried updating stuff through its built-in updater, everything started crapping out. BIG TIME. So that’s the second time Mandrake’s crapped out on me. Sooo… I’m downloading both NetBSD and ROCK Linux to try them out.
I just realized how many different distributions of Linux/BSD I have. For PPC, I have Yellow Dog, Mandrake, NetBSD, Gentoo, Crux and ROCK.
For X86, I have two versions of Red Hat, FreeBSD, OpenDarwin and Debian.
I guess that’s one thing I like about Linux. It’s free and downloadable. And it’s completely customizable, down to the kernel. Now if it would only become a little more polished, I think it would become a viable alternative for the vast hordes of Windows users.
Chris
Wow, I didn’t know Darwin was available for x86. I should try it out… when I get myself an x86 computer