Learning Linux & Loving It

Well, it seems that I may have found that sancuary from MS that I was looking for. I tried another few Linux distros after my last post. I finally ended up trying PCLinuxOS. It started up fast, and had a wizard for configuring ndiswrapper to use the windows driver for my wifi card. And the best part is, it works. I am posting this from my couch, in Firefox, on PCLinuxOS using my wifi.

I'm working right now to get a dev environment set up. I have Eclipse, CFEclipse, Apache, and MySQL installed so far. I'm working on ColdFusion right now. So, I thought that I should take a break and share the good news.

I think that most people with desktop PCs (or Laptops that don't have the broadcom wifi chip like mine) would be happy with Ubuntu, Sabayon, or PCLinuxOS. They all booted up for me and had the normal stuff that you'd need to be productive. But, PCLinuxOS just made it really easy to setup ndiswrapper. And the way they have their menu set up and their control panels are nice too.

If you're curious, you can take any of those distros out for a test-drive using their LiveCDs. Just download the ISO burn it and boot from the CD.

Well, I'm off to finish getting CF running. See you soon.