My Friends,
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:20 PM I made some STUPID remarks to the effect
that GNU/Linux does not cut the mustard. I now know these statements
were the result of my own stupidity and short-sightedness. Please allow
me to explain:
Last September I decided to buy my kids a couple of computers for
Christmas. Me being the cheapscape I am began looking for the cheapest
netbooks (kids = tiny fingers. works great with tiny keyboards) I could
find. I ended up on the Ncix.com site where they had the venerable eee
pc for CND $199.00. Needless to say I bought two. Fastforward to last
week, when while slightly bored, I decided to upgrade the OS on the
netbooks to anything other than the stock Xandros bloatware the eee pc
comes with. After some reading, I settled on the Ubuntu Netbook
Remix--that's when I saw the light!!!
Not only is GNU/Linux (Specifically Ubuntu) matured enough to turn a
crappy netbook into an honest-to-good system; but it can transform a
full blown, vanilla laptop into a mobile computing powerhouse. Things
like Boot-up time (fast), memory management (awesome), OS stability,
input response, peripherals detection, onboard component recognition,
etc, etc. are all thru the roof. Even sharing a printer connected to a
box running windows vista was a breeze.
I don't know what Ubuntu has done on the UNR; but whatever it was, I am
buying. Hell, even running aircrack-ng on an eee-pc (with packet
injection) on several routers on the neighborhood provided me with
enough IVs to crack WEP in no time. The same experiment took several
days to accomplish on another system running another GNU/Linux distro.
Although my faith in GNU/Linux running a server was never in question;
I, however need to publicly apologize to the Linux User Community for
opening my mouth about GNU/Linux on the desktop (or netbook). I am sorry
for speaking out of turn. I WAS WRONG.
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