Ideas at the top of my brain are issues regarding software and tools. That means I’m thinking and talking about upgrading my aging Fedora and Ubuntu installations and how best to do that for the first few minutes of the talking and walking.
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You mentioned banging out the Odin’s Outpost novella over a couple days… thinking way in advance, and maybe I missed it elsewhere, but what form do you think we will see this first? A standalone ebook? Perhaps a Podiobook?
Love the #tommw – keep up the walking and talking!
I doubt that it’ll be a podiobook anytime soon. It’s just 20k words and too short to make into the required 5 episodes to be a podiobook. It *will* be a standalone ebook and I’m planning on having it listed on Debora Geary’s Novel Nibble’s site for 99 cents.
Of course, that was before Ridan decided to do some “Ridan Shorts” so we’ll see what happens there.
The idea was to drop a few of these shorter works on my own to give you all something to read in between major releases.
There are arguments in favor of maintaining a heterogenous Linux environment:
1) Security – one may have a security hole the other has patched, or never had at all.
2) Stability – a bad kernel or video driver preventing boot, leaving the other machines available for diagnosis and repair.
3) Newer packages in one or the other – you can always xhost a program on one machine across to another machine for convenience. (Goddess, but it’s fun to have windows on your screen that are coming from 2 dozen machines scattered across the lab, or even out in the world!)
I’ll be interested to hear what you end up with on your computers. On my netbook I was running JoliCloud just because it would boot and Ubuntu after Jaunty would not. I have Toshiba NB205. I just installed Lubuntu (11.04) on it and am pleased.
On the laptop I copied my Ubuntu 10.04 to a separate partition and upgraded to 11.04. Unity is a change in the way you get at things and I guess it uses a bit more resources. It’s my impression that Gnome 3 is similar and I’m not going to get around making the change if I stick with Gnome no matter what distro I use. So, I’m interested in seeing how things work for you. I still haven’t decided if I want to upgrade the main system on my laptop.