Before you jump to any conclusion, let me clarify things a bit. The wine i am talking about is the wine program (Wine is not emulator) and it does leaves a good taste in your mouth. I was reading up on running wine on linux and i thought maybe it is a good idea afterall. While the installation was a no-brainer (I am on ubuntu and synaptic rocks!) and to install some app you need to find the setup file and open it with wine program.
In ubuntu, a new context menu item is added and i can right click on a "set.exe" file and select "run with wine". Anyways i could see it was emulating "c:\\program files\" and maybe there is some hidden registry file too. Well all in all it was intelligent enough to place a link to that app on my desktop. The first app i installed was 'gtalk' but it didnt work out that good. It was missing the buttons and i could only see the text boxes. Maybe i would look into them when i get more time. Then i tried Ultraedit editor and it did install good. Heres a screenshot to that!
Ok so it did go smooth, now i am on my way to install winamp and some other apps i liked on Windoze. Now you would be tempted to ask why did i install ultraedit instead of using linux editors like kate or bluefish. The thing is i like kate but it is not as refined as ultraedit. And even if this sounds lame i like it so you who cares if its a windoze app.
Cheers
Those of you who are looking for a replacement to basecamp project management tool can check out ActiveCollab. Though its not as feature rich (currently) as basecamp but i am sure it will develop into a worthy competitor.
Installing activecollab on your own server means your data is in your hands (both literaly and otherwise :) ) and also u can set up as many projects as you wish. The only roadblock i can see is the requirement of both PHP5 and MySQL with innodb support.
Yup its true. Its marriage season now in india. Unfortunately its not me who is getting married, one of my best friends (sumit) is getting married. In a few days (15 days to be exact) time he will loose his bachelorhood and join the ranks of married ones ;) .
So lets see how it works out for him, I mean girls are always carping the fact that guys shy away from commitment, but this guy seems to be too prepared for that. I wish him all the luck in his married life!!
Yeah i know what you are thinking. Was this dude stoned when he wrote this caption. Yeah i indulge in distro surfing from time to time. The thing is linux spoils you silly with so many options that it baffles many noobys. Ok so i have installed / tried lots and lots of distros. So many of them that i have forgot even there names. The thing is Distros can be categorised into main stream (Server and desktop) and private projects. Most of the smaller distros started as private projects and when people started to show support they grew into community projects.
Also, all of these distros take a well established main stream distro and does some value addition to it. Take the case of Elive, a live CD distro based upon debian and enlightenment as the Window manager which is a tough task itself, if u want to achieve that yourself. Let me make an inventory of all the distros i have tried till date:
- Monkey linux
- Corel linux
- Debian (woody)
- Redhat 7,8,9
- Fedora 2,3,4,5
- CentoOS 3, 4
- FreeBSD
- Elive
- PCQ linux
- Zenwalk
- Slackware 9, 10
- Ubuntu 5, 6
- kubuntu 5
- Xubuntu
- Knoppix
- Madriva
- Damn Small Linux
- Slax
- Linspire
- Vector linux
Phew that was a long list. Of all these distros i have tried, i have some personal favorites. First is debian; its rock solid though hardware detection is a problem with my computer but i manage to make it work somehow. Redhat or Fedora is ok but its quite bloated. After doing a full install it doesnt leave you much space to play around. Vector was blazing fast on my old computer, the only problem was Xfce used to crash quite reqularly, even KDE crashed quite often.
Currently i am using Xubuntu and it is working fine apart from a few small glitches. I am in love with the synaptic package management tool available on debian based distros. It put even yum to shame.
Earlier i used to configure the LAMPP setup by hand on each distro i used. But lately i wondered why go through all the pain, nowadays i just download xampp for linux and there you go. No time wasted in installing and configuring all the extensions and such.
A few days ago i stumbled upon Kororaa. It has more eye candy than vista folks. And come to think of it; its not hard on your hardware, lol. I always thought successive versions of OS should be more stable, less hungry for resources and more secure than the previous ones. Sadly this is not the case with Vista. Now lets not get into MS bashing here.
That just about does it for today. As usual comments are more than welcome.
Sandy
