TuxRunner

My evil plan is coming together nicely!  Muwahahah.  Linux everywhere!  I went to Best Buy and preordered a Motorola Droid for the wife today.  She should be able to get it by November 6th on their launch date.  I couldn’t help but get caught by all the great reviews I was reading on it, and the fact that it’s very similar in features to the Nokia n900 I’m awaiting shipment of.

So that’ll make two new cell phones (or, er…pocket computer in my case) that are on their way both running Linux under the hood.  I love how this OS is permeating the market and no one even really knows it.  Tivo’s, Archos, Android handsets, Palm Pre, n900…it’s really all over and no one even knows it.  Dare I say that eventually the Microsoft Mobile OS’s, iPhone’s, and Symbian’s of the world will become the minority in the mobile handset world.  Linux will in one form or another dominate.  It’s inevitable.

Just when I thought the Nokia N900 was the uber-phone to beat all phones…Motorola releases something that should give it quite a good run for the money.  This thing looks sweet.  Even has a bigger screen and better resolution than the N900.  I honestly thought about canceling my pre-order for the N900 once I started reading more about the Droid, but I have a better plan. (continue reading…)

It’s been a while since I’ve posted.  Hasn’t really been anything crazy going on in the world of Linux for me.  But things are starting to pick up again.  I finally, FINALLY got rid of my last Windows system at home!  (Well, not entirely true, I still have an XP VM floating around for a check printing program I use).  My Windows 2003 file server at home has been replaced entirely by a new DroboShare for the Drobo, and any apps that were on it are now running under Linux on my CentOS box.

I also, without giving her much notice, upgraded (haha) the wife from a Windows 7 Release Candidate, to Linux Mint 7 over the weekend.  She’s honestly pretty good with it.  Not too much for her to figure out.  I’m surprised at how well she’s adapting to it.  I’m trying to keep things as familiar as possible to her.  Luckily I’ve had her using a lot of cross-platform apps, so things like Skype, Firefox, and Picasa are already familiar to her on the Linux side. (continue reading…)