12:18 PM - CS111 Lab and Linux
I had to use Redhat 9 today. I was rather suprised. The gui was very nice.. i liked it better than XP actually. It reminded me of a shitty version of Mac OS X! I think it was the workstation version which costs 150 per seat. What a pain in the ass.. microsoft type pricing.
Redhat is the microsoft of the linux world!
I must say though that it impressed me, and if they get the speed issues fixed it would be a good pc os, second to Mac OS X. I think FreeBSD will catch up though.
Redhat did have a nicer gui than Sun and SGI though. Nice improvement. It looks like they are using some of the KDE stuff, but i'm not positive on that. I suspect an opengl accelerated driver would make it rock. Well if linux can do that like freebsd, it would.
At least linux would support my fucking sound card. FreeBSD does not! (its an audigy)
If i didn't have requirements for .NET, i'd probably switch to linux with wine actually. I could play enemy territory on linux.
I think i'd prefere a new Macintosh with virtual pc though. (no ET, but i'd have a new Mac to game on) I'd like to get a powerbook with 10.3 panther on it. Wireless of course!
Anyway the lab went fine, aside from being a bit bored. I connected to my server with ssh and surfed with lynx. :)
Lynx actually supports iframe, and image maps btw. (seperate link)
I'm such a Unix geek lol!
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