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I do this from Suse 10.1

Did I tell you the story of a guy who was blessed with a bit of too much? Well, here go...


There was this fella, just got a job with a fat pay check, all married and all, bought a cool desktop for himself planning to have broadband connection so that he could blog his way to glory. ;-). The bloke gets blessed with a laptop of all things. Now he also has a broadband connection (at a whopping speed of 2 MBps). having resources including time at his disposal, he decides to try his hands at Suse 10.1.


Now my friends, I am using the inbuilt application in the OS to post this entry. I have also downloaded the latest version of scribe-fire which will work with the latest version of Firefox. Poor me has so much on hands now, that I don't know how to install these updates.


Video is not working as well so I have downloaded real player 11. Again I dont know how to install that as well. I hope I will make all things work over this weekend.


I had a small personal trip to Bangalore over the last weekend and have lots to share about this trip. It was one of the most enriching trips of my life to say the least.


Take care...

Comments

Kiran said…
Hye Laukik,

It'l take time .. but you'l get there. Uhmm .. I know that sounded like grampa handing down 7 decades of wisdom to Munna from Class 3 :D

But hey, what would be your reaction if I told you that there are people who use official laptops which are Windows-free? Now that includes official software for official EMail, Development tools, testing tools, IM, VPN .. and thats just the beginning of the list! And yes - this is in India :-)

The icing on the cake - its based on SuSe Linux Desktop 10 :-))).
8:09 pm
Clueso said…
Any particular reason for Suse 10.1? I currently run ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop(which it shares with windows) and on my desktop(where it is the sole owner) and it installed and ran like a breeze. Updating etc etc is also supremely simple, so maybe you can give it a try if you feel like it :)
9:33 pm
Kaustubh said…
Happy Linux Move....
2:40 pm
thelaukik said…
Thanks for reading guys!
I will soon be making a shift to Ubuntu. I have requested a free CD. So by next weekend I should be on Ubuntu.
Reason for the shift is I found SuSe too heavy and complicated. Plus Sanket, my cousin who got the DVD for me made me install all sorts of geeky things on this enterprise version (yes it is not a desktop version). Worst of all I can't play video after downloading MegaBytes of installables and patches.
So it is gonna be Ubuntu soon.
11:54 am
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