I’ve been so busy (since last weekend) with configuring and playing with Suse, that I realy haven’t missed XP all that much. Last night I was hoping to get some .avi files converted to mpegs, (TMPEGenc would do the job on XP) but had little success in the 20 min I spent trying.

All in all however, I _REALLY_ like this linux thing… I know I must have said that a lot lately, but it’s so true.
I like how _everything_ is so configurable, and most importantly that the configuratio nis done through text files. At first I was scheptic (coming from windows, where everything has a GUI) but I’m appreciating the advantages now… especially when I locked myself out of the server machine (well, the VNC connection was firewalled out), it was so nice to be able to just SSH over, modify the SuSEfirewall2.config file to open ports for VNC, and restart the firewall, and voila, back in business.

I find that one needs a bit of knowledge to at least understand how things are configured, and more importantly what the configuration file names are. Once you know that, the actual configuration is not that bad. There’s always lots of comments to guide you, as well as lots of web posts.

And I’m doing some pretty fancy-smancy things… your common garden variety computer user would have NO problems using a linux install to surf the net and do basic office application work.

Now if I could only get the DNS server to work, so I won’t have to address every computer on my network by a numeric IP address…