Migration: Not for the Faint of Heart is an edtorial response to yesterday’s OSNews article on the failings of one person to successfully switch to Linux. As I said, I thought their expectations were too high, and that they failed to consider resources that could help. Posted at OSNews
Upgraded the intranet server from Red Hat 8.0 “Phoebe” to Red Hat 9.0 “Shrike” yesterday. The slow part was the downloads - each CD takes about an hour over broadband (okay, that’s not much to complain about!), but disk 5 had to be downloaded 5 times before I got a clean copy. (Hint: use MD5Sums.exe [...]
Moxie comes unwired. This girl’s got moxie, no doubt about it. Posted from The Doc Searls Weblog
Here’s a sad story, one sure to be used by Linux bashers for more material. The evil side will summarize this as “somewhat clued-in tech writer can’t get Linux to work on her machine.” The other side might view this as “somwhat clued-in tech writer tries
Out-of-date distributions,
On older hardware that was running 95
Without asking for [...]
