I like Linux.  A lot.  I first cut my teeth on Caldera Linux. Mandrake (now Mandriva) and and a rather unhealthy obsession with purchasing the boxed set of Red Hat soon followed.  I still remember the warm, fuzzy feeling of getting Return to Wolfenstein running on Redhat 8 with Cedega.  I've always loved operating systems, running the gamut: BeOS, QNX, Solaris, and SkyOS to name a few.  But Linux kept me coming back.  It goes without saying, I highly reccomend it.

However, since I purchased my Mac, I've largely just been using that - with my PC getting used for the occasional Grand Fantasia or Shaiya (which consequently, runs just fine with WINE now).  I've slapped Windows 7 on a 40GB drive to test, break and learn how to support it.  I decided, however, to put the Penguin where my mouth is: Running Ubuntu 9.10 x64 on a second 500GB drive.  Ubuntu 6 was probably the last time I really seriously used the OS - time for some catching up.

Essentially, I'm trying to use my Ubuntu box for everything I can now - to find out what works, what has to be done to make it work, and what plain just doesn't.  No WINE, no VMWare, just Ubuntu.  Thus far all I've run into is a problem with PPTP VPN connections - something I hope to solve soon.  I've yet to do the GtkPod with my iPod, just used FSpot for my photo management.  I want to find out what Ubuntu offers, where it excels, where it falls short, and become a better expert at it to confidently answer questions and suggestions to friends I've had switch.

I've been using Outlook too much at work - I press Control-K to make hyper links all the time now...