operating systems

Which OS Are You?

“Which OS Are You?” poll is circulating the blogs these days. Lots of people take it and they turn out to be “OS/2”, and than there are so happy that they aren’t “Windows ME”. Well, I guess I got closer to “Windows ME” than most of them, because I turned out to be “Windows 95”.

The description is as follows:

You are Windows 95 You look better than your older brother but your communication skills are still lacking. You start well, but often zone out.

Now, what was all that about “older brother”. I am an older brother. You do they mean RMS? :)

Fedora Linux Core 3 is out

Fedora Project has announced the release of Fedora Linux Core 3. As usual, all software packages has been updated with lots of bugfixes and new features. It should be faster, better, user friendlier, and blah blah blah…

I am downloading it currently using BitTorrent at excellent speeds of 500+ KBytes/s. I will upload it then to Thunderworx ftp server. If you are in Cyprus, you better wait until it will appear there, so you will be downloading it at faster speeds. If you are outside of Cyprus – I am sorry, FTP server is firewalled for you.

Update (9 Nov 2004 18:25): Ok, it is up at Thunderworx FTP server. Also, read the Release Notes.

FreeBSD encounter

One of my collegues convinced me to install FreeBSD on one of our test machines (workstation type of thing). Didn’t manage to dig deep down yet, but first impression was rather negative (installation, first steps).

LTSP – Linux Terminal Server Project

Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) is a great tool for setting up diskless machines. I have setup a ThinkNIC thin client as described in the documentation in the matter of minutes. Next nice thing to try is running applications locally on thin client.