Brews you can use

Well, that was quick.

I decided to give Linux another shot, to see if I it could reduce my computer futzing, etc. (Me shying away from computer tinkering, Jess making fermented beverages — what’s going on here?). I’ve been using Fedora Core 6 on my primary workstation at work for about a week, without incident. Meanwhile, my FreeBSD laptop gets a bunch of “are you fscking nuts?” comments.

This time, Linux lasted only two hours. Slower boot-up, spotty/fragile support for the Intel Pro/Wireless 2200 — I only had that working for one session, it disappeared on reboot. Couldn’t even do sleep/wakeup as smoothly as FreeBSD; it dropped the network connection and never recovered.

So, back to FreeBSD (as soon as I could get a FreeBSD install CD to reinstall the FreeBSD boot loader) for a while. Both are still installed, so I may give Linux another go when I’m feeling like tinkering

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 16th, 2007 at 10:38 pm and is filed under Computers & Internet.