Sunday, March 31, 2013

Decisions, decisions

OK, so I'm not much one to make fast, clear decisions.  Unless it's absolutely life or death, you're not going to get me moving very quickly.  And deciding what Linux distros I'm going to put on a middle-aged laptop doesn't exactly qualify as life or death, now does it?

Anyway, I've finally decided that, yes, I am going to just do a dual boot to lesson the sting of my indecision.  However, I then became entangled in what two distros...

I'm pretty sure one is going to be Precise Puppy (though MacPup is still a possibility).  The other one was definitely going to be Bodhi Linux (I decided against Zorin Lite because...well, because...)

However, I tripped across AntiX, and...

I have since burned Bodhi and AntiX to disk, and have done some simply liveboot tests.  Bodhi is definitely quirky, but it is quite cool.  And AntiX comes with the bloody kitchen sink included.  (Good God, it even includes a Terminal based text editor and web browser!)

I still have the MacPup .iso in download folder, along with the Zorin .iso.  I'll keep them around.  You never know...

It's amazing how the utterly unnecessary can consume so much time.  But I guess it's harmless.

Mostly harmless.  (With apologies to Douglas Adams.)

One of these days, I will get 'round to actually installing the software on the system.  (I'm kind of waiting for the new battery to come for the Acer before I really get going.  I think, once I get it set up, it'll be a fun system to play with.  And that's kind of what I'm looking for, something fun to play with...

Yeah...

Now, off the watch Casino Royale for the nth time....


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