Yeah, that’s right baby! I’ve got a box at my home now. Built it from old broken computers at GTTI and convinced the administration there to let me bring it home to do work. They were thrilled with that idea, as several weeks ago I had submitted a request for a computer, which would have meant they’d have to spend money they don’t really have. This way, I’ve taken broken computers and made one working system from them that I can now use. Something from nothing – not too bad, eh?
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For the last couple months, I’ve been running the 5.10 (“Breezy Badger”) release of Ubuntu Linux, a relatively new-to-the-scene Debian-based distro that’s made incredible strides toward becoming a serious top-dog contender in the general-purpose Desktop market, along-side Red Hat Fedora and Suse. I’m just going to say a few things about it, just some thoughts that I’ve generated over that timespan, and put them out here for anyone who gives a damn.

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