[TriLUG] I Feel Dirty (a confession)

[Maria Winslow]

Ken,
I'm finishing up a book on open source for technical managers (The Practical 
Manager's Guide to Open Source, Manning Publications, summer 2004), and I am 
in the process of collecting screenshots so readers can get a better idea of 
how user-friendly Linux has become.

To that end, is there any chance you could take a screenshot of the basic FC1 
desktop before you get rid of it? It needs to be high res .tiff or .eps to 
work for print.

Thanks!
Maria

On Tuesday 27 April 2004 11:46 am, Ken Mink wrote:
> I've been using Linux as my desktop OS at work and at home pretty much
> full time since I first loaded Slackware from a huge stack of floppies
> in '95. Since I've worked as a *NIX sysadmin and then a *NIX developer,
> having a UNIXy desktop was wonderful.
>
> For last 2 1/2 years I've been using my personal laptop as my main
> machine at work and then as my secondary machine at home. It started out
> as RH7.3 and is now running FC1. It was time to replace this workhorse
> and tomorrow it's replacement arrives; a shiny new Powerbook. Normally
> the arrival of a new toy of this magnitude fills me with the same
> anticipation that I felt on Christmas Eve as a child. This time it's
> different. I feel like I'm cheating on my wife or I've given up on an
> old friend. I just feel dirty.
>
> I do not plan on loading Yellowdog or any other of the Mac Linux
> distros. As I said, this is my main machine for work. As much as I enjoy
> the challenge that Linux sometimes poses, I can't afford the downtime at
> work. While Linux makes a great desktop OS, my experience has been that
> it's not so hot on laptops(ACPI anyone). I know it will get there. For
> now, my productivity requires me to go elsewhere.
>
> I'm still running 3 Linux machines at home and a dozen or so at work,
> but tomorrow will be a sad day for me just the same. It will be the end
> of an era.
>
> Ken
> --
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin
> " 'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it
> is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."--William Pitt

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Maria Winslow
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