Taking care of business.
I realised something cool today. My VAIO laptop currently has an uptime of over a week. Normally in the course of my job I don’t pay that much attention to uptime - it’s just the time between regular security patches. On my laptop it represents something a little different though.
It represents over a week of Linux power management working flawlessly. In that time, I’ve suspended and resumed my laptop a couple of dozen times - and every time, it’s come back, with everything working. It represents over a week of Linux applications doing everything I need, without resorting to booting into Windows to use a commercial program or read a proprietary file format.
In this week I’ve worked on some pretty diverse and important tasks. I completed my tax return - as a contractor this is a little more complicated for me than it is for regular employees. KSpread was more than capable of keeping track of my invoices and manipulating my data. I’m creating a presentation, but once again KOffice has me covered. I’ve also hacked on some code, done some sysadmin work, listened to music, watched videos, edited images, and spent way too much time on IRC. Physos, I blame _you_.
It’s not news to anyone that Linux is capable of doing all these things. Doing it for over a week without crashing, freezing, refusing to come back from suspend or otherwise displaying buggy power management?
Windows can’t do that on this machine.
Neither can OSX on the iBook I recently gave away to my mother.
Congratulations to the Kubuntu/Ubuntu teams for their latest release being the one that doesn’t just work as well as Windows - it works better. I’m doing a mke2fs -j /dev/sda1 to reclaim my Windows partition for storage space if I can go the rest of the month without needing to use it.
Now I just need to get the latest ion3 to compile on Kubuntu Feisty. Anyone got any ideas? =)