That depends on what you need. If you don’t want to spend a lot of money on software, Linux is a great way to go, because it’s free if you download a distribution, such as Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE, etc. Otherwise, you can purchase a copy in a store. Linux is very reliable and fast. There is a lot of support for Linux too. Less likely to get a virus that could damage your system.
One of the things I found really hard was choosing a Linux distribution to install on my system. You really don’t know which one will work for you and/or you’ll like unless you try it out. The best way to do that is to get a Live CD/DVD of the distribution (available via downloading) and then try it out without having to install it only to find out you don’t like it. A list of Live CDs/DVDs available for lots of distributions can be found here: http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
I searched all over Google hoping to find out why iTunes can’t seem to sync my Outlook calendar on the iPod. I ended up finding iPodSync and thought I would try it out. It seems to work and has more features than iTunes alone, for syncing the calendar, notes, e-mail, news, weather, and more.
Unfortunately, it’s a 30-day trial. Since this is the only thing that seems to work for me, I will most likely purchase it when I can. I like being able to look at my schedule without needing to be at my desk. If only I didn’t have to sync the calendar by plugging the iPod into the computer.
Ever since I put openSUSE 10.2 on this laptop, as far as I can remember, I am constantly being disconnected from MSN. I know people who have me on their list find this annoying, but the only solution is to disconnect and not use it. Not a very good solution, unless you’re lazy and don’t care about figuring out what’s causing it.
Yahoo doesn’t seem to be affected, so I would think that cancels out the wireless, or does it? Maybe the Yahoo server doesn’t detect this if I haven’t been offline for long. MSN might detect it right away. I’ve tried as many clients as I can find and it doesn’t matter which one I use, it still happens. So, that cancels out the clients. Or does it? Did Microsoft change something in their code?
I do know that when browsing, sometimes my wireless connection does go out and I have to wait just a little bit (one minute at the most) before I can continue. But I am never disconnected from Yahoo or MSN as far as I can see. But maybe there is a slight lag so the messenger doesn’t detect this right away. My signal is perfect, so that isn’t what is causing it.
I love this web messenger, but hate that I have to keep the browser open to use it. It has a really nice GUI that would look wonderful on my desktop outside of the browser window! Since I have this green theme thing going on, I set the theme for Meebo to be green, and it looks really great. Reason why I’m using this is because I was testing to see if I still get disconnected on MSN and it turns out (as said in a previous post) that I do still get disconnected. I’ve concluded that it’s the wireless.
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