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Linux is back on my notebooks.  It’s Fedora 9 Sulpher.  Here are my quick thoughts:

Intel 3945abg works out of the box!  This was true with Fedora 8 also.
My Atheros-based card works out of the box!  This was not true with Fedora 8 and I am so happy it is true with Fedora 9.  ath5k [...]

So, I installed Ubuntu 8.04LTS (Hardy Heron) on my play notebook and found it extremely well-done. So, I figured, after four months of Vista on my main notebook, I could switch over. Heron did everything that I need, so why not get away from Vista for a while? I installed it [...]

We’re clearing out the office to make way for the new princess’s nursery.  Part of that move means moving out all my networking gear from the office into the new “office” — a slice of the livingroom and kitchen.
The DSL modem, wireless router and NAS got moved into the kitchen and now sits on [...]

I installed Windows Vista Home Premium on my main PC notebook.  I admit it.  I did it.  Yesterday.
While I loved having Fedora 8 — or in general any distro of Linux — on the notebook, I wanted to do stuff that I couldn’t do in Linux.  One of the big drivers was the fact [...]

When I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard, I swore I’d give Safari a good try. When I told Alice, she only blurted, “Ugh, why?” I don’t know, I guess because it is the built-in browser? And because I was using it on my iPhone. I just started using Firefox on [...]

Giggle.
Linux is cool, but is it cool enough for the masses? Probably not. I would not stick my wife or mom or sister with a Linux box (even running Ubuntu). I use Linux daily, but I’m a geek, that’s understandable. MacOS X, on the other hand, that is cool and [...]

Dear Editors and Proofreaders at Linux Journal,
I find your magazine informative and fun to read at times. But, recently, your magazine has made me grind my teeth because of the horrible editing. Editing an article does not mean running it through a spell-checker and giving it a thumbs up. Editing an [...]