Baby, if you've ever wondered...

[c9]

I'm teaching in Ottawa this week at Polar Bear's Ottawa office. Not a bad gig, beyond the being alone all week, and leapfish being alone all week. That's no good.

Flew here on QuikAir (www.quikair.ca).The plane was roughly the size of a typical airport shuttle. Note: not intercity shuttle plane, I mean the minibus you might take to get TO the airport. 19 seats. almost no aisle, no services at all. But kinda fun. I was seated on the wing, and the plane was small enough that I could feel all the lateral and vertical movements. Fairly smooth, fairly noisy. No tray table for my laptop.

Checked into hotel, got high-speed internet, went out to supper with friends, talked to Vinny, hung out and chatted with Jason (who will soon join LJ if we all bug him enough), talked to Vinny one more time, headed for bed.

This morning I realized that I still had setup to do on my laptop, so I frantically installed Red Hat 9 while eating a croissant. It's not easy to frantically install Linux, let me tell you. But the day went fine, and now it's done and I'm just sitting here in te empty classroom, letting Red Hat 7 install itself for my students. Dang, anaconda is slow.

Tonight, I think I shall go to Paddy Boland's, the bar my little brother (the one who's three inches taller than me :-) works at, for a visit. Then probably hang out in the hotel and veg.

Comments

[c9.livejournal.com]

Depends on your goal. Best hardware support: Fedora Core 2. Best response time: SUSE Personal 9.1. Good mix of modern drivers and software while still fairly standard (unlike FC): Mandrake seems OK in this regard.

If I'm installing, it's FC2. Unless the system is slow, in which case it's Red Hat 9 or maybe SUSE. I discovered that a few scripts I have for teaching don't work on SUSE, and rather than take the time to figure it out, since I don't have the time, I switched to RH9 instead.

[instynct.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Most helpful.