jake olsen

In follow-up to my old post about switching to Ubuntu full-time, I did the deed last April.

Here’s how it went:

1) Switched to Vista Ultimate. Found that key software such as firewall and antivirus didn’t work.
2) Got scared about not running firewall and antivirus.
3) Went back to XP.
4) Two weeks…
5) Feisty is released April 19th, let’s give it a shot. Edgy blew.

I’ve been pretty happy with this release. Minor hiccups included getting the graphics subsystem to display properly (Envy helped). Major hiccups included a corrupt LUKS partition.

Regarding dmcrypt/LUKS encryption:

This guy went through a similar problem, but basically, there is a single point of failure in LUKS. The dreaded LUKS header. Back it up! Luckily I had a not-so-old backup of my data.

I was a little naive in my selection of software, here’s what I finally ended up using.

command line svn for Tortoise SVN
Pidgin for Trillian Pro
KeePassX for KeePass
rsync for WinSCP
Komodo for IDE

There is a place for every OS, and I use them all. But working with community maintained software has it’s own benefits and I’m enthused to see how far Linux has come.

–jake