OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20670/What_To_Do_this_Holiday_Season_ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 21 May 2013 03:12:44 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com I'm gonna... http://www.osnews.com/thread?340841 http://www.osnews.com/thread?340841 take the about ten or so old computers I've
collected from various friends and work-places
over the years that I got scattered all over
the place and put them together and set up a
nice little computer park running various
Linux distributions. Just for fun :-) Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (M-J-B) Comments There's just too many things on my to-do list http://www.osnews.com/thread?340842 http://www.osnews.com/thread?340842 There's so many things I've been about to do for some time now. But, alas, I always get over-ambitious and get nothing done in the end.
Should have upgraded from Fedora 8 to Fedora 10 some time ago, but at least it's nice that the Fedora people postponed Fedora 8's end of life from 25.Dec 2008 to 7.Jan 2009. [1]
Always wanted to try LinuxFromScratch, but it's just too big a project to get completed in a meaningful way in the short time available. So I guess I'll stay with Fedora for some time still.
I've also tried to learn OpenOffice.org's Basic variant - could have been useful in the past, had I learnt it before. When I think of this plan, however, I'm always reminded that I really wanted to try LaTeX. Oh well.
I guess it will be best for me to have a go at the author's last suggestion: "Switch off your computer" ;-)

[1] http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=205835 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Detlef Niehof) Comments OpenSolaris http://www.osnews.com/thread?340843 http://www.osnews.com/thread?340843 OpenSolaris is a good suggestion. I'm running it (as the only OS) on one of my computers for a few months now and have already prepared migration path for others (linux-based atm). It's very impressive system and the improvement rate is truly awesome! Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dvzt) Comments Well... http://www.osnews.com/thread?340845 http://www.osnews.com/thread?340845 It is yule after all, so time is obviously spent with family. So what would be better than solve my mother´s need for a combined spam-marking email/calendar solution by installing Thunderbird with Lightning?

Besides that, the only thing to do right now is to "hygge". Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dylansmrjones) Comments RE: There's just too many things on my to-do list http://www.osnews.com/thread?340847 http://www.osnews.com/thread?340847
Should have upgraded from Fedora 8 to Fedora 10 some time ago, but at least it's nice that the Fedora people postponed Fedora 8's end of life from 25.Dec 2008 to 7.Jan 2009.


Fedora 10 is definitely worth the upgrade. They haven't done much flashy stuff on the surface (maybe the init process, very well done), but a lot of improvements under the hood are really good. A great release.

I've also tried to learn OpenOffice.org's Basic variant - could have been useful in the past, had I learnt it before. When I think of this plan, however, I'm always reminded that I really wanted to try LaTeX.


As a LaTeX fan I can tell you that it's one of the best "investments" you can get in software. Besides learning to code yourself, of course. LaTeX (or LyX, very easy to work with) is one of those programs that once you get along with you wonder what on earth everybody's doing with the WYSIWYG stuff, and that's not even foor l33tish or ideological considerations. It just looks so much better in print, and it's just so much easier and faster to use.
(Doesn't mean LaTeX is better for every purpose)

I guess it will be best for me to have a go at the author's last suggestion: "Switch off your computer" ;-)


Very wise. As I'm typing this, I haven't made it that far yet. Many plans though. Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (h3rman) Comments Classic Games http://www.osnews.com/thread?340853 http://www.osnews.com/thread?340853 Forgetting all the technical whatnot, I used to play games a lot as a kid. It was grand. For sure with all the spare time this holiday, I'll be doing a bit of LAN gaming with my buddies. Star Craft was always one of our favorites. ;) You've got to feel like a kid again once in a while. Albeit a kid who actually knows how to set up a network game.

Coming back to the technical stuff, it'd be nice to set up a file/print server made from an old HP dc5000 SFF for the printers in the study. Whether running XP or the latest Ubuntu has to offer, I've yet to decide. Perhaps I may try venturing to another open source OS, though I'm still relatively new to open source and haven't much time to work with unfamiliar systems.Edited 2008-12-20 01:09 UTC Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (weildish) Comments Since it's the season of forgivenes and goodwill.. http://www.osnews.com/thread?340880 http://www.osnews.com/thread?340880 I'll give OS X another try (ducks after having maligned it over most of this year). When you also get that 'life's too short' thing over Windows too, well, maybe time to swallow my sin of pride.

Definitely get all the stuff I have hauled out of skips/dumpsters over the last 12 months or rescued from friends who have no more use for it to good homes, or recycled responsibly. Time to feel virtuous as well.

Then I will switch off my computer, and do a bit of painting round the house. Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (orfanum) Comments RE[2]: There's just too many things on my to-do list http://www.osnews.com/thread?340899 http://www.osnews.com/thread?340899 Quote...

Should have upgraded from Fedora 8 to Fedora 10 some time ago, but at least it's nice that the Fedora people postponed Fedora 8's end of life from 25.Dec 2008 to 7.Jan 2009.


Fedora 10 is definitely worth the upgrade. They haven't done much flashy stuff on the surface (maybe the init process, very well done), but a lot of improvements under the hood are really good. A great release.

I've also tried to learn OpenOffice.org's Basic variant - could have been useful in the past, had I learnt it before. When I think of this plan, however, I'm always reminded that I really wanted to try LaTeX.


As a LaTeX fan I can tell you that it's one of the best "investments" you can get in software. Besides learning to code yourself, of course. LaTeX (or LyX, very easy to work with) is one of those programs that once you get along with you wonder what on earth everybody's doing with the WYSIWYG stuff, and that's not even foor l33tish or ideological considerations. It just looks so much better in print, and it's just so much easier and faster to use.
(Doesn't mean LaTeX is better for every purpose)

I guess it will be best for me to have a go at the author's last suggestion: "Switch off your computer" ;-)




I have installed Fedora 10 on my Dell XPS M1530 and it is a lot nicer than Fedora 9/8.

Fedora 10 has a lot faster bootup and a lot of the tweaks that they made and enhancements are really worth it. Plus, hard disk encryption is nice...

You can add vga=0x318 to your grub.conf stanza to have your info scrolling when you boot up (remove quiet also)...

I am waiting on RHEL6 to come out next year all of the underpinning changes being made, along with upstart to be implemented and new kernel. I can't wait I will be installing Centos6 on my Dell XPS wiping out Fedora 10 and installing it on my workstation/laptop for work as well.

AND I am installing Zmanda for work, the front end to amanda makes configuration 100 times simpler than the config file for amanda.

I already have it running, plus loading new Centos 5.3 Servers.

Lots to do! Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (centos_user) Comments