Made the Switch!

Well I finally made the switch to a different OS, guess what it wasn't? MacOS! I'm going to let you guys in on a poorly kept secret. Linux is a very mature and solid OS, it is definitely ready for primetime. I recently came into possession of an old Dell laptop, its a Celeron 433/128mb RAM with a wimpy 12gb HD, bleech, right?

The plan was to get my kids off of my main machine and onto the laptop. I was going to install WinME on it and let them have at it. To make a long story short, I couldn't get WinME going on the laptop with any degree of success.

I work in the IT industry and of course we're all geeks, which I proudly consider myself to be. There's always a group of guys bandying about linux this and that. Don't get me wrong I've heard about linux before, I just never had a need to move away from Windows. When my computers performance would get slow enough to notice I would upgrade.

So now I'm in possession of this woefully underpowered notebook that I would like to get some use out of, os where do I turn? Linux! I hoped online and started checking out what they call "Live CDs", these are bootable distributions of Linux that you can try out without taking the plunge so to speak. I tried the following:

Live Distros
DSL (Damn Small Linux)
Slax (Based on Slackware I believe)
Knoppix (Gnome)

Full Distros
Vidalinux (Gentoo)
Susie (?)
Xandros (Debian)

That's it for now, I'll finish up tomorrow.