Microsoft has a section of their site devoted to non-technical parents of technical kids. Apparently the term ‘snert’ is used to describe on online bully. Who knew?
I’m in search of a Linux distro. I’ll be getting another computer, for free, and I need an OS for it. Maybe I’ll pick up a KVM switch so that we’ll use that computer as our Web/email/IM/general use computer, and our current computer as my Windows development computer/gaming rig. I first thought of FreeBSD since it’s solid and the “ports” feature makes installing/updating applications a snap. Then I thought of the fact that since this computer won’t be a production server or anything, I’ll probably end up installing plenty of things on a whim, and that’s when I decided on Linux. I’ve used Fedora before and liked it but I think RedHat needs to overhault RPM as it’s showing its age. I like Debian boxes, but I hate setting them up. Debian‘s package manager rawks but the install sucks so bad. I’ve narrowed my choices down to two; Gentoo and Ubuntu. If anyone can sway me either way, let me know.
