Well, I’m a dork. My A+ didn’t grow legs. It was just moved to another part of the office underneath a pile of papers. I took my stupid test today, and passed! Yay! So, I am free for the moment of academia. Time to sink my teeth into Linux now! :)

TDN was shut down today, giving us a nice break. During this time, however, we need to retool our systems so we can better support growth. My damn day job gets in the way of a lot of the admin work at TDN. Lucky Heidi gets to deal with most of this. :( This leaves packing and other non-timesensetive items for me.

As far as my Linux progress, I am installing my fourth flavor today: Vector Linux. It’s supposed to be a minimalistic Slackware-based distro. Sounds good to me. I started with Red Hat many years ago, and was promptly turned off by it. More recently I started with Mandrake 9.0 which I must admit was an amazingly easy and complete install. However, I now look at it as bloatware. It installs just too much shit. Also, I recently learned it was based on Red Hat (which I find more commonly known as Red Hate). The whole idea here is to get away from Micro$hit, and other companies like them. Red Hate is starting to go down that road. So, I went to my old standby, Slackware 8.1. Slackware is touted to be the UNIX of Linux, and I think that will have some benefits in the long run. Also, I like the name. ;-) But, while Slackware is true to UNIX and an all around great distro (BTW, both Red Hate and Mandrake are wonderful distros in spite of my personal opinion), it is also a bit like bloatware in my opinion. But, take this with a grain of salt, as I am quite anal about having a clean system to start from. So, this brings me to Vector Linux…

VecLinux is a Slackware-based minimalist distro (only somwhere around 250MB iso). I think this will do me fine. I’m at the part where I install X, so time to concentrate. This is the worst part… More to come.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!