ubuntu 8.04 - great success

as the older brother i'm taking care of my both sisters computers. and because my "support" is free i decide what OS i'll maintain. so for a long time (2 years), both of my sisters are using Linux as their main OS. for the last year they were using kubuntu, and the only problem till know was drivers for HP LaserJet 1005, but on the end turned out that printer is not working :) ... silly me ...

after a year i decided to upgrade their computers. i choose Ubuntu 8.04 beta (still needs 10 days to become stable, or more :) ). installation went smoothly, next, yes, next , yes, yes, ... etc. so like installing windows, with one exception that ubuntu was installed in aprox. 20min + reboot time.

i was amazed with design of ubuntu. its really nice. and when you able all those - uneccesary - effects, you can get any girls heart. well finnaly i can say that even macosx looks behind time when compared with ubuntu 8.04.

still i wont change my linux distro(gentoo), because i'm still a control freak. ubuntu team ... great work ... keep the spirit and happy future releases.

p.s. spellchecker is not working in ff3, hope it will work soon, because even i see that english above is like a crap, but hey, i'm master of bad english :)

wmii - real men use keyboard

a week or two ago i installed gentoo on my - 2 year old - ibook g4. i didnt use linux as desktop OS for this two years. well last time i was using KDE and thats what i installed first. well coming form mac osx kde was a little to slow for me, thats why i decided to five it a try with other WMs.

so last day i've been compiling a lot:
- xfce, nice, fast but just missing something
- e16, really nice, but some configuration would be needed but i dont have time
- e17, even nicer, easier to configure as e16, but needs some more development
- fluxbox, nice as e16, but i'm looking for some thing else

then i tried wmii, didnt know what to expect. i mean i saw friend working one with it, i was amazed by "keyboard only" navigation, but at that time i thought that it is to difficult to learn all this shortcuts.

when you log in you get a welcome message where there are basic commands that you need. in 15min - or less - i went thru this basic commands and give them a try.

i was so amazed with coloumn mode that from now on i really dont see how to live without this. still i need a lot to learn about wmii but first impression is awesome. i've started writing review and guides how to use wmii for newbie.

as my friend fillipos said "real men use keyboard"