{"id":1795,"date":"2008-04-13T00:33:56","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T03:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2008-04-13T21:29:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T00:29:10","slug":"the-imminent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1795","title":{"rendered":"The imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>he CBC has an article about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/technology\/story\/2008\/04\/11\/tech-windows.html\">prediction that Windows is about to &#8216;collapse&#8217;<\/a>, because of Microsoft&#8217;s inaction towards the marked after the introduction of Windows Vista. Other industry experts say that Microsoft knows it&#8217;s Windows days are dwindling, which is why it&#8217;s pulling so hard at Yahoo so that it can refocus efforts to reclaim the territory lost on the Internet (services and advertisements, that is).\n<\/p>\n<p>So, just earlier, I decided to go ahead with the installation of Ubuntu on one of the spare computers: I have my share of experience with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?s=Debian&#038;searchsubmit=Go\">Debian<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?s=Ubuntu&#038;searchsubmit=Go\">Ubuntu<\/a> (as a virtual machine, for example), so generally, I didn&#8217;t encounter problems I couldn&#8217;t fix: for example, every piece of hardware was detected correctly. Mind the following notes:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you&#8217;re used to vi, you probably still want to install &#8216;vim&#8217;. The default vi version that comes with Gutsy sucks so hard that, well, if you thought vi already sucked&#8230; (so, yes, go ahead and apt-get install vim)\n<\/li>\n<li>KeePass, the password manager that I use, is available too: apt-get install keepassx. I haven&#8217;t tested if it&#8217;s completely compatible with the Windows variant.<\/li>\n<li>Skype is also available: you can download the Debian deb file from Skype.com itself and install it right from your favourite browser.\n<\/li>\n<li>Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but I like my terminal session to be white letters on a black background and not the other way around.\n<\/li>\n<li>You still have to go through hoops to get DVD to play, but then, this is basically because this is Linux: after all, on your Mac and Windows PC, someone has already paid for being allowed to play DVDs on those computers.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, yes: if you have a spare computer in your house and you think you may want to give Linux a try, you can&#8217;t go wrong with Ubuntu &#8220;Gutsy Gibbon&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference\">\n<p><em>Update 1:<\/em> C|Net article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/8301-13505_1-9916813-16.html\">Microsoft Windows and Gartner analysis on the future of Windows<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CBC has an article about the prediction that Windows is about to &#8216;collapse&#8217;, because of Microsoft&#8217;s inaction towards the marked after the introduction of Windows Vista. Other industry experts say that Microsoft knows it&#8217;s Windows days are dwindling, which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1795\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[298],"tags":[55,113,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}