Okay, blogs are new to me, propper me me blogs anyhow. Pukit.com is all about future stuff, interesting stuff, arty' stuff. This bit is just random spiel that exits my lips via a keyboard at any random point in time. I may use it to insult the places, people i've met, or just rant at the world in a subtle public voice! Possibly humiliate myself in the process.

Today, i've been given a laptop, well, was last week to be fair, its an olden, some Celeron processor job, half the keys not working due to a red wine incident i believe. But today, it works, Godbless eBay, found a second hand keyboard, ripped it apart, rebuilt with new keyboard and hey presto! Working craptop! Great eh.

So getting my world of opensource back on track with ubunto as we speak. A lot of people wonder why anyone bothers with an opensource operating system, the people i work with often do, the people i socialise do too. I imagine my roots with linux go back to my pre-university days, i remember attending a lesson in college and a friend saying he didn't use Windows, he used Linux, and no one knew what it was (other than the seriously serious geek amongst us) and i was curious. I'd only owned a pc a couple of years, and was still running games in Dos or the new incredible Win95! I looked into linux, but i didn't really get to grips with it until university, the use of Solaris, HP-UX, Redhat, it interested me. I ran a server with redhat and could ftp into it from uni and share my work, run a http server, it was exciting, it was interesting, it was not Windows! By then XP had taken the world by hold and i was eager to get out.

So i'm back to opensource, on the craptop anyhow. Vista on my main machine, sli graphics, all that, my gaming rig, i tried Wine before, and shall not be going near that again, so vista for my main rig. At the moment, Ubunto on my craptop until i decide which way to really go. Until another day, Pukout.