Geek in Practice » Linux http://www.geekinpractice.com Geekiness is a virtue! Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:52:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Let The Penguin Games Begin! http://www.geekinpractice.com/2009/09/let-the-penguin-games-begin/ http://www.geekinpractice.com/2009/09/let-the-penguin-games-begin/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:08:08 +0000 amrush http://www.geekinpractice.com/?p=61 So, about a month ago I installed openSUSE Linux on my laptop. Honestly, I liked what I saw but I felt some of the Linux privileges have been removed. Therefore, I’m saying sorry Novell but your system isn’t for me. What do now? I wanted to fallback to Ubuntu or maybe Fedora. A little push from my brother is all I wanted to try something completely new. As I said, openSUSE removed some of the privileges Linux offers hence I’m heading for the distribution which give me total control!

Go Gentoo! See you on the other side!

]]> http://www.geekinpractice.com/2009/09/let-the-penguin-games-begin/feed/ 4 Lizards Vs. Drakes, Efts, Fawns … Jackalopes! http://www.geekinpractice.com/2009/08/lizards-vs-jacakalope/ http://www.geekinpractice.com/2009/08/lizards-vs-jacakalope/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:22:47 +0000 amrush http://www.geekinpractice.com/?p=47 I’ve been Wondering if I ever been to a safari or not. Well, I haven’t and I can’t see I will ever be in the foreseeable future but, in anyway, Linuxing can be as intriguing as going to a safari. I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux ever since it was only a Dapper Drake (although either fictional or not living in a safari). I loved the operating system, society and embraced the concept and philosophy! I became an official exclusive Linuxer around Gutsy Gibbon when I gave Windows the axe and the boot out of my hard disk. That’s when the adventure started. When I decided to enjoy the mishaps of Linux. When I started to see the million ways The Gimp is better than Photoshop (you might argue it’s not, but embrace the philosophy and you won’t). Along the way, when I was upgrading and waiting for every 6 months for a Heron or an Ibex to come by, I was always thinking to wear a fedora or capture a lizard. Until it finally came, two months after introducing Ubuntu to my roommate, I was playing around with my Jackalope he decided to buy a laptop (Thankfully he didn’t need to pay the Microsoft Tax). He decided to try out three Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSUSE). I thought I should move on too. I downloaded OpenSUSE and, here I am, loving the experience. What I like the most is that we have 3 machines in the room and each has a different distribution of Linux and nothing else to be found!

What I also like, is how all three of them are basically the same yet so different. I felt a bit lost at first then it clicked all of a sudden! Am I going to play with a Koala instead of my newly captured Lizard? Let’s wait and see! I’m only wondering why OpenSUSE is the dark side of Linux?

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