Finally ditched the last thing holding me back from full on wolf native Linux, my Airport wireless dongle. I had held back on converting my Intel iMac to Linux because of the airport admin utility, the little bit of software that controls the tiny plug in Express.
Such a small final step, but a huge leap for a lifelong Apple uber-fan. Never could have imagined six months ago that dabbling in OpenSuse could lead down this path. Ayyywoooo!!!
While I'm thankful to Apple Computer for all the fine products that they sold over the years, of late I'd become completely un-enthused in my digital life. Linux restored the fire, and has me baying at the moon once again.
Though I'm convinced that in the medium-term it really won't matter what system you are using (as long as it's secure), in the near-term I think that this makes the most sense for me personally.
There are just not enough hours in the day to try out all the distros that are out there; What with all the exciting developments surrounding Ubuntu, the new release of Fedora (no longer core) today (!!!), the wonder that is elive, the prospects of SabayonLinux, the beauty of Debian (just net-installed on test machine), as well as a host of other upcoming events and releases, it was just too much to hold back from. And yes, I typed all those links from memory--could do probably the entire top twenty at distrowatch.
Was going to post this from my Debian machine, but still haven't gotten any automatix love there yet; may take a bit more time before that's set up. May do it the old fashioned way, from the command line, as Debian also uses the apt-get commands, something that is quite familiar to Ubuntu users.
Though I think Apple is making alot of the right moves to stay in the game, they just weren't moving fast enough for me. Truly it's not their fault, but the big music and movie companies that are holding them back with all their DRM-laden nightmares they'd like to share with the rest of us.
Jamendo is going to be getting loads of attention in the near future. Now if I can only figure out to put Linux on my third generation iPod, I'll be set. Does the iPhone support Linux yet?
With the advent of FiOS (fttp), and a number of other potential ultra high speed content delivery methods, the only thing holding us all back from digital madness will be storage space; that little bottleneck may be solved soon enough.
And if you missed this interview with Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth, then check out this bit:
Phoronix: If you don't mind, many readers would be interested in knowing what you're running on your desktop. Are you running Ubuntu or is it one of the derivatives such as Kubuntu or Xubuntu? Similarly, for the hardware folks, what sort of hardware are you using for your desktop(s) and notebook(s)?
Mark: My desktop runs Kubuntu and it's on a Dell XPS box. My laptop is a ThinkPad and it runs Ubuntu.
I think I'll keep at least one partition of my ThinkPad for Ubuntu. Heh.