Yes, I have finally gone back to Linux. Ah, the ever so powerful bash shell. Well… my primary reason for going to Ubuntu is to refamiliarise myself with the Linux environment in preparation for the upcoming Kiwicon.
I have always been a Fedora user ever since my uni days. It was Red Hat back then. I decided to try Ubuntu this time because it’s lightweight and easy to use. So far, the experience has been great. My biggest concern was the wireless driver but it just worked. Okay, maybe not entirely true but it is definitely much easier than what I had to go through the last time I setup a Linux environment. The try before you install feature is really handy; and the fact that the distribution fits nicely onto a CD is a bonus. I believe Fedora will almost fill up an entire DVD.
A few commands that every Linux users can’t live without, as I had discovered, are:
- ls, cd, pwd
- cat
- su, sudo
- ifconfig, iwconfig
- man (Q to quit)
I’m surprised how everything just came back to me. I should probably call it quits at this point. Looks like I’ll be operating on 4 hours of sleep tomorrow for the second consecutive day.
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Slightly worrying that you’re just doing Linux to prep for KiwiCon. If I check my photos I think I saw more Apple iBook, MacPros and iPhone / iTouch there than linux laptops. When you can virtualise away the pain of Windows and run sixteen different flavours of *nix in a nice shiny package, I think many of the hackers are joining the Apple hardware base tribe.
Admittedly a lot of the Macs I saw in 2K7 were running Vista or XP native rather than Mac OS X.
Should see you there I expect, got the Wellington pass, just now to get the boss to pay for one of those embossed Kiwicon tickets
August 28th, 2008 at 13:23
Thanks for the heads up JoMangee. Don’t quite know what to expect being my first Kiwicon and all. Hoping to get back into the game.
Don’t fancy my chances with ticket sponsorship here. Just counting myself lucky that I haven’t got laid off.
August 28th, 2008 at 23:41
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