Postcard #3 - gEDA, etc.

I've decided to add a summary at the end of each postcard. Scroll to the bottom to see the gEDA, etc. summary.

Last night I downloaded gEDA. I just burned it onto a CD today while babysitting my two kids. Mommy needed a break so she went to Wal-Mart. I tried loading it on my old Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop but I kept getting an error. After some digging, I found out that the Ubuntu guys have whipped up a package for an older version of gEDA. No thanks.

I've decided that I'm not ready for Ubuntu and it's not ready for me, at least not yet. I've done Centos and Red Hat installs scores of times, so I'm sticking with those for now. I'll re-install Linux on my laptop (which I'm dual-booting with WinXP) and I'll use the new CentOS 5.0 DVD that I'm downloading with BitTorrent.

I'll document my progress on that one later on. My next postcard will be about some more specific research that I've been doing.

-MC


Summary:

• Ubuntu Linux not ready for latest gEDA
• I am not ready for Ubuntu
• I am moving on to more specific research