A Penguin in the Orchard

The Conscious Stream

I finished the review of SuSE 8.1 for Penguin Shell yesterday. After a little more than a week with it, I felt pretty good about recommending it for new Linux users. Easy install, clean interface, nice package selection, and a great configuration and package management tool in YaST2. All in all, it was a fun way to dive back into another round of reviews. These distros sure have come a long way since I started using Linux.

Along those lines, I’ll be working on the Gentoo install again starting Thursday night. Normally, I’d do these installs for review on Sunday, but this was a particularly troublesome one a few weeks ago. I want to give it an additional few days. The published reviews will start on Wednesday of next week, but the live blogcast begins right here tomorrow night.

The Giants won tonight. Ho hum. I was thinking about all the players I don’t like on the Giants last night - Kent, Sanders, Lofton, and Bonds. That despite the fact that Bonds is undeniably the best player in the game today, if not all time. Then again, I don’t like Pete Rose either. Yet, he’s the one who got the longest, loudest and warmest round of applause during the “Baseball’s Most Memorable Moment” celebration before tonight’s game. And the Angels? I’d never heard of many of them before the Series started. I have to say - go Halos. My pick is Angels in six.