The Linux experiment continues.....

[poltr1]

After using Ubuntu Linux on one desktop and two laptops for several months, I find that I can do most of eveything I need to do in Ubuntu. Three notable exceptions I've found so far:

1) Using a PCMCIA modem on a laptop. Linux and PCMCIA modems don't get along very well. Primarily because most PCMCIA modems are Winmodems, which use part of the Windows operating system to perform its tasks. If I'm at a place that has only dial-up (such as my mom's place in Buffalo), I have to boot up in Windows.
2) Websites that require Internet Explorer. There are some websites out there, presumably developed using Microsoft products, that don't support Firefox. (Shame on them.) And Microsoft isn't going to develop a version of IE for Linux anytime soon.
3) Windows-only apps. I haven't tried installing or running TurboTax via Wine.

I intend to keep using Ubuntu as my primary operating system for the foreseeable future.

P.S. Ubuntu 10.04 -- aka Lucid Lynx -- is scheduled to be released on April 29.

Comments

All job networking is contained on LJ . . .

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

I have no idea if you read exapno's journal, or if this is even your area of expertise, but here goes:
http://exapno.livejournal.com/236509.html

Re: All job networking is contained on LJ . . .

[poltr1]

I don't know exapno, so I don't read his/her journal. In any event, it appears that the entry is friends-only, and threfore I can't read it.

Re: All job networking is contained on LJ . . .

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

Ah, the whole journal is . . .

She is a Chicago-area fan who is filk-friendly although not herself a filker.

Okay, swipe 'n paste content, here:

Is anyone out there familiar with AS/400 Systems / EDI? We may
have an opening posting soon (Lake County / Vernon Hills)

Yes, more details when/if I have them; will probably open this up later
on too. But wanted to get the thought out asap