had a play with booting ubuntu from the cd last night. went really well, everything i tried just worked. only issue was american keyboard and the brightness on my laptop screen was set to "burn the fuckers eyes out" tried rdcing to my work pc (windows xp) and that worked fine, although oddly all the l's were converted to j's (jog in rather than login for example) bit weird but still useable.
the original reason i started looking at ubuntu was after readin a couple of articles about amazons elastic cloud (ec3) web services where you can provision linux servers via a webservice. this got my mind racing about possible applications that could be run, but since (at the mo) its only linux based it got me thinking about learning how to use/administrate linux. A while back i had a job that involved admin of apache on some aix servers, never really got into the whole command line thing, but i guess its never too late.
So the plan is to clear some space on my laptop and attempt (gulp) to get ubuntu running a a dual boot, for my home needs the excercise last night proved that i could do nearly 100% of what i use my pc for on linux as opposed to windows web browsing, instant messenging, rdc to work, all work out of the box. the only other thing i do is code. There are obviously numerous options open to me in this area, i mainly code in c# so the mono project on linux looks like a cool option if i want to code c# on linux. the other obvious option (because of its similarities to c#, and portability) is java. If i manage to get a dual boot working, i think getting a dev environment for each of these set up will be the number one priority.
more to come.
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