Still here, folks!
Posted By matt on February 19, 2005
Sorry I've been away, been busy.
Did everyone have a nice Valentine's Day? I did. Lizzy and I did. She got me some books (Alton Brown's
I've been playing Mercenaries. It's quite good. Thing Grand Theft Auto in a warzone, and designed as a shooter. It plays a lot like Star Wars: Battlefront (third person, with a targeting reticle). You can jump in and use most vehicles. It's far more up my alley than the GTA series. I hope they make a sequel.
I'm also switching from Gentoo to Ubuntu. The long compile times were bugging me. Ubuntu is basically Debian, but with a pushed up release cycle and a more focused package list (Debian's reach often overextends their grasp, in my opinion). So far, it's decent. There's a bunch of stuff that needed to be added to make it useful to me, but for most folks it should be fine out of the box. It goes in very smoothly (don't know if it can resize Windows partitions; didn't try, but the installer is very simple). The hardest part is the partitioning, which I think is fair. If you want to blow away your system, then the install is very easy. Dual booting is a little harder, but that is usually the case. Aside from that, they ask what the machine's name is, has you make a username, whether to get packages from the internet, and that's basically it. No package selection annoyances or anything like that. When it's installed, the default GNOME setup is nice and Synaptic is a nice package management frontend for folks. Basically, if my mother didn't already have a new iBook, I'd recommend she use this. Oh, and they do a PPC version, so I can run Mac On Linux on my Mini.
Anyway, back to migrating systems to Ubuntu.
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