Linux Geekery

I occasionally do sideline work for clients around town. I recently did a network upgrade project, and as part of that they paid me to wipe out the hard drives and dispose of their old PC's. So at the moment I have a bunch of decent machines sitting around.

I plan on keeping a couple of them, and so I installed Kubuntu linux on two of them. I've been looking for a reason to try it out at home, as a primary use machine. I've been running it as a secondary for a while at work using Virtualbox virtualization software.

I've been running it at home for the last couple days and its been going pretty well. I'm writing this entry from the Kubuntu machine. It's not my first foray into linux, but it is my most in depth to date. It runs great on this slightly older hardware with only 512 MB of ram. Installing software is really easy, and there is a ton of high quality free software available. There is a learning curve, as with anything new, but by and large I think most people would have a fairly easy time transitioning.

The first day I had it, I needed to burn a cd. I downloaded the ISO file I needed to my desktop, and double clicked the file. The burning program started right up, and about 10 minutes later I was done.

I plan to try Ubuntu studio as well, it's a distribution geared towards multimedia creation.

Look at all the pretty pictures

Several of the regular readers of my irregular posts are aware that I'm more than a little into web comics. In addition to the 60 or so comics that Leif has on his aggregation page, I have about another 60 I read on a daily or weekly basis (depending on their update schedules), and another 20 or so that are on hiatus.

One of the best ones I've seen is called Breakfast of the Gods. It is a large format comic, with a long reaching story arc. Very similar to a graphic novel, in web form. The art work is great, and I'm really enjoying the story. It doesn't update on a schedule that I've been able to determine, but new ones come in every few weeks. He recently finished book one of the story and started on book two.
I highly recommend checking it out. You'll recognize most, if not all of the characters.
Breakfast of the Gods Book One: The Last Good Morning
Breakfast of the Gods Book Two: O Cap'n, My Cap'n