tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565336039022979685.post5228723602395481273..comments2023-10-17T04:33:41.592-05:00Comments on Kah Zoohl List: Of VMWare, OpenSSL, and 64 Bit Linuxkazoolisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05904231352522204880noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565336039022979685.post-8597923113424597282007-08-18T12:22:00.000-05:002007-08-18T12:22:00.000-05:00Matt - Thanks for the comment.To echo a lot of wha...Matt - Thanks for the comment.<BR/><BR/>To echo a lot of what you said, I've found the Linux experience these days is a very reasonable one. Many (most) things "just work." I can remember the days where just trying to get Linux installed on a box was a challenge. The standard Linux disto installs these days are as easy as any other OS.<BR/><BR/>When you try to do something less standard, like authentication via LDAP, that's where things always start to get a bit challenging. And, frankly, I don't mind the ocassional challenge. When you take one a challenge and get things to work, it's pretty rewarding.<BR/><BR/>And, many of those challenges are getting easier to conquer due to the efforts of the FOSS community and more-and-better documentation on teh Interwebs. Googling an error message gets you to an answer maybe 8 out of 10 times. <A HREF="http://www.howtoforge.com/" REL="nofollow">HowtoForge</A> has great step-by-step instructions for things. And then blogs and forums nd mailing lists... etc etc etc.<BR/><BR/>My hope with my rant, asside from just venting some frustration, is that someone having the same problem might find it and be able to get a bit of a head start. And then, if they can get things working, they'll share how.kazoolisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05904231352522204880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565336039022979685.post-36271362965452631682007-08-18T09:38:00.000-05:002007-08-18T09:38:00.000-05:00It may seem strange that the "Linux Nerd" post is ...It may seem strange that the "Linux Nerd" post is the only one to attract a comment lately, but here here you go...I am such a nerd, although I haven't done anything nearly intense as your post lately. Something about linux nerds is they love to find problems like this: something so complicated, intense, and strangely mysterous that it must be conquored. There were lots of them when the kernel switched from 2.4 to 2.6, I remember having to install RedHat 7.4 or something even though Fedora was available...I couldn't get a driver to compile and work with the new kernel. I currently have a problem with evolution, an e-mail client. I only started using it to dump messages from my e-mail server to keep an archive. Some time ago evolution updated automaticaly, and now it locks up my computer when I try to read a message. I can still get in there and download the messages, and I read them on the web, but it is a lingering issue that I haven't tackled yet. You can only do so much in a day, so you have issues like these that linger and make other people think: "why Linux? you have so much trouble with it" But I think Linux nerds like to have projects like that in the back of their mind for three reasons:<BR/>1. To have something do work on when they get tired of reading Slashdot<BR/>2. Because they like the "community" of Linux users and love seeing a problem like this come to light, be picked up by someone and fixed, summarized into a "howto", and be hit #2 on Google. "The comminity is working, just like they said it would!"<BR/>3. To stick it to those companys that say they support Linux but do stupid things that cause Linux Nerds to go on a rant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com