On the Mark

I know my co-worker Lawrence Lee is going to crank on me for this one but here goes:

I’m a forever DOS and Windows guy since the beginning. Since before the Internet had GUI’s. Dos 3, Dos 5, I even ran Windows 3.1 on a 286 with 4 megs of RAM. Impossible, they said. I did it. Windows 95 was painful, 98 was a tad better. XP has been a mixed blessing and Vista…well, I’m not sure I’m going there.

Seriously. I have a tablet laptop which I won in a drawing a few years ago and its main duty has been to get my wife on the Internet and let her access email. She’s searching and shopping and stuff like that. But lately the laptop had grown to be sluggish and slow. Her brother has a Vista machine and boy those graphics are nice. But it’s too big a hog to go on this old tablet of mine.

I’m frustrated that Microsoft has made my hardware obsolescent with their newest operating system. So I was faced with a decision.

And what did I do?

Ubuntu.

God bless you.

I didn’t sneeze, I said “Ubuntu!”

Huh? Come again?

That’s right. I went completely off the reservation and wiped that laptop clean, right down to the bios.

I installed Ubuntu 7.10, the Linux based operating system that is FREE and stable.

That’s right. A Linux operating system.

Whoa, the Windows crowd gasps. Now THAT was uncalled for.

I have to get on the road this morning but I’m quite sure Ubuntu will work its way into this blog again very soon.

Anyone else here Ubuntu?

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