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Wednesday, January 16. 2008

Well it's been a long time between blogs.

Loads has happened since last time I posted.

I moved jobs and am now working on contract at IBM in the Linux Support team. I've been there now for over a year!
I switched Linux distros, after OpenSuse 10.1 was quite a disaster (their update system on that version was a total flop - recent versions are much better).
I'm now quite happy running Ubuntu Linux... it's everything one would want in a desktop Linux distribution. You can take a peek of what it looks like by viewing the Ubuntu Screenshots.
We've purchased some land and have commenced building our first home.
We got a nice parcel of land (some 931sqm) in Bannockburn, which is about 60kms south-west of Melbourne (as the crow flies). It's a nice rural setting of about 7,000 and is expected to grow to about 14,000 in 5 years time.
It's about 20 mins out of Geelong.

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We're commencing building a house (plan of what we're building is here; though we're making a few minor adjustments) If all goes well, we should be in there somewhere between July-September of this year!

I'll start blogging quite a bit more now, as I've missed it. So expect to see a few posts each week.

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hmm.. dumped openSUSE because of 10.1 package management had problems?

Agree package management is superior in ubuntu, but the general feel of the OS is much better on openSUSE and with version 11 just around the corner, the package management is just about the same,

#1 Jeffery (Homepage) on 2008-04-28 15:27 (Reply)

I like the feel of a deb based distro over that of an rpm one on a desktop.

For servers, I still use rpm based systems, but they are quite a bit more stable and not upgraded as often (thus I've settled on CentOS for server deployments, and Ubuntu for Desktop deployments).

It's a nice combo and seems to work well for me.

OpenSuSE lost me on the 10.1 release. 9.3 was awesome, 10.0 was reasonable, but 10.1 just was awful.

I moved to Ubuntu and haven't looked back.

I even run Ubuntu as my MythTV setup.

Again, personal preference only, and YMMV.

#1.1 Matt (Homepage) on 2008-04-28 15:38 (Reply)

> I like the feel of a deb based distro over that of an rpm one on a desktop

Is it because it is a debian derivative? Most of the people who I know and runs ubuntu, do it only for the coolness factor. Some even claim to be "debian" developers by being amongst a certain group of people. To top it all they don't even run debain anywhere (desktop or server).

With debian based derivatives, though I like the package management, I dislike the process of creating packages. RPM is just a simple spec file and you are done.

My path to openSUSE has been:
RedHat > Mandrake/Mandriva -> OpenSUSE

Not that I haven't tried switching, I tried desperately to switch to ubuntu (for my mythbox/Desktop) but on the condition that everything works on first install. Unfortunately it didn't and I went back to openSUSE

#2 Jeffery (Homepage) on 2008-04-29 18:41 (Reply)

hehehe... that's the same reason I moved away from openSUSE!

I can create both RPM or Debian packages, so it's not an issue for me.

For me... Debian based systems upgrade much easier:
'apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade; apt-get dist-upgrade'.

Try that with an RPM system.

Also it seems I upgrade my desktop much more often then my servers. Hence debian distros help.

#2.1 Matt (Homepage) on 2008-04-29 21:02 (Reply)

> Try that with an RPM system

Don't worry openSUSE has that taken care of already

BTW what WM do you use? Do you run Mythtv from svn ?

#3 Jeffery (Homepage) on 2008-04-30 13:10 (Reply)

Nah, too late for me on openSUSE. I use SLES in my day job, so I'm pretty familiar with it.

WM = Gnome
MythTV = Not svn but what ships with Ubuntu
Distro: Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

#3.1 Matt (Homepage) on 2008-04-30 17:37 (Reply)

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