Posts Tagged ‘Vista’
OpenSUSE 11.0 — The Long and Short of it
I haven’t been using my blog much over the ast few months. I have generally been very busy with life in general. Not least of course with work which has been a great player in my life this year. Not in a negative overtaking way but apart from my photography and walking, it has been my main creative output. So, trying to get things back on an even base before I leave once again for a weeks (for Christmas and New Year) it’s about time I updated this blog on my exploits with OpenSUSE 11.0.
OpenSUSE 11.0 Desktop with Firefox 3 and LyX
Vista In Use – Day One
Around the web a search for Vista alone will yield many an article about the terrible experiences people have had, how much better Windows XP is, and how it’s just junk.
It isn’t.
I’m saying this as ever, as a new user to the system, and as a Mac OS X and Linux user too. I’ll wager many of those proponents of the ‘Vista sucks’ message are either those who need/want to drive up visitor numbers/advertising revenue and those willing to read that message to confirm a half baked belief that will vindicate them as right. But this isn’t about what is right or wrong, just the facts. Just the facts Jack.
Vista and Ideas
So let’s see what I have running in my household (which consists of me, myself and I):
- OpenSUSE 11 on the laptop
- Windows XP and 2000 on the Dell
- Windows NT 4 Server on the other Dell which is a glorified NAS (Network Attached Storage) box
- Mac OS X 10.4 on the eMac
- Mac OS 9.2 on the iMac
A balanced lot I think. The top two get the most use in general. The time has come however to take the jump and start plugging away with Windows Vista.
A distro named after me? Oh… Vixta Linux
Immediately I thought of what I usually get called after a few glasses of red, “Vickster.” Then I shook off my ego (sorry I had been watching too many politicians arguing over the toss last night on telly and their posturing.)
Vixta is a Linux distro which is based on Fedora and it uses the KDE desktop environment , the curious part of it is that it ships out of the box to look like Windows Vista. Now this may end up with a cease and desist notice (some of the graphics look far too close to the ‘real thing’) but actually it’s not too far off the mark of what Vista looks like in some elements. In others it’s clear it’s KDE particularly as the Konqueror file manager is just that–it’s not Windows Explorer.
