Randolph Installed and running successfully: Red Hat 9.0 and all patches, qmail 1.03 and all patches. Now I need to sleep!
After purchasing some additional items of clothing on Monday, I redid my entire closet space last night. I never knew I had so much rubbish! For the past 20-odd years, I’ve had a cupboard and a chest of drawers in which I’ve kept my large collection. Now that I’ve moved into my own place, I decided to put everything in one set of cupboards and use the chest for something else, like papers or whatever. I’ve now got a pile of stuff that could fill two drawers, which I no longer want or need. I guess I should call the Salvation Army around.
After playing with Red Hat Linux for the past couple of weeks, I’ve come to realise that we are not going to see the death of Microsoft’s hold on the desktop market. Why? Well, Windows is just so damn easy. There’s nothing else to it, it’s that clear cut. Longhorn Vista is going to make us wonder what we were doing all these years before, when it comes out in 2006. Windows Server 2003 kicks ass on four- and eight-way processor platforms. AMD’s Opteron and Longhorn will be an unbeatable marketing combination for Joe User.
Linux is superior technically, but I am not a fan of following build instructions line by line to get something installed. The purist in me says that’s the whole point, but the impatience in me says screw that, and let’s just double-click the setup icon. Methinks the tech-head doth protest too much.