Not that anyone will care
House on Red Corner · 2006-01-29
Recently, due to a self-imposed critical error, my Powerbook crashed. I tried over a couple of days to stop it, but I was unable to do so. Then when I attempted to recover the OS using a Live CD, I just was not clever enough to do so, not this time. Since I had university assignments due immediately, and I had been talking much smack over the last couple months about Open Source software, I went ahead and wiped out the hard drive and installed Ubuntu on my Mac.
Yup! That’s right, no more OS X on my machine. The only data that I lost was the purchased music on my itunes account, since everything had been backed up already. I spend a couple of days reconfiguring the system so that instead of running GNOME as the Desktop Environment, it now has KDE. Some minor tweaks and I got the sound card and DVD player working.
I have been really enjoying some of the features of this new operating system, with the speed and power of the hardware, it is a real pleasure to work on. I enjoyed using Mac OS X, however most of the applications I used were Open Source software, so since I had it set up as a Linux box, it only makes since to go ahead and be a Linux box.
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