Sunday, June 02, 2002

[ OK - I know why I might like a Linux box - primarily because MS needs some kind of competition. But tell me why you guys like one !] [The Wagner Blog] Well, because I'm a geek-). The next day I sobered up-). I don't have the same arguments as Brad does as Windows XP is immesely stable for me - never bluescreened in a year, no reboots for months, so I have no ambition particuarly to switch. I just wanted to see where things were at and I am happy to see they are a lot further. Don't worry - I've still drank the coolaid-) Its still not a viable development system for me since my development is all .NET and VS.NET. I am not a command line person or whatever. I was looking at the nice KDE desktop and saying "Ok, now what do I do?" I don't have Office (don't tell me to use StarOffice or whatever they're calling it this week). I don't have VS.NET. I don't even have Radio. Most of Linux development is old fashioned C development from the 70's - I'm not into that. People will claim that there's Kylix. Well, IMHO, anyone using Pascal for anything other than a teaching language (now replaced by Java and C#) and in real software work is misguided to say the least. So I'll do things with it. But Windows XP is my OS of choice still and if "COM is Love", then ".NET is Orgasmic!!" 6:43:50 PM

PocketPC Summit Notes. The PocketPC summit just ended and there's some interesting news. Phillip Torrone has pics and some links. Macromedia showed off how to create rich Flash apps on the PocketPC. Click here to watch the video (WindowsMedia 13MB). Frank McPherson had a log going during the sessions. Jason Dunn covered the keynote by Derek Brown. The Philadelphia Inquirer also covered the show. [Robert Scoble: Scobleizer Weblog] 6:22:57 PM

Ok, this isn't the Linux of even a year ago. 20 minutes, done, installed. Freaking unbelievable. Detected everything, set up network. I almost jumped out of my seat when it detected "HP 420C" printer. Its done. On the network and everything. So does Radio run on Linux? [Sam Gentile's Radio Weblog] Indirectly... try Win4Lin or VMware. :) Actually, although I have Radio on my main box right now, for quite a while I was running it on a W2K server whose monitor was regularly "off", as it served as a file and web server primarily for us. I had to keep a user logged in, but eh, that's no biggie. I'm honestly darn close to paving my WinXP box for a Linux machine, and doing my .NET dev inside a VMware window... I just need something better than the "needs to be eradicated every three months because your registry is out of control or you installed some device driver that makes it unstable" world of Windows. Besides, my "next big open source project" (which ties into my "current big open source project", the Web Server) is to write a web-based blogging & new aggregation system in .NET (and, since I use Radio, I'll be sure to find a way to import Radio blogs). Probably by the time I'm done, Mono will be ready to run it... [The .NET Guy] Yes, I will be looking into Mono  more now. 10:26:37 AM

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