Re: OT - which distro?
Just an update for anyone who cares:
My house is now Windows-free[1]! Yay me!
My wife did get a refurbed Dell for her birthday, a 510m, which is running Ubuntu very nicely indeed, thankyou very much. She *****es about it from time to time because it's not what she's used to, but that seems to be diminishing as time goes on. I think she quite likes it really, but just won't admit it=-)
That meant I was free to do whatever I liked to the Viao, which in the end was an install of Xubuntu (this machine isn't quite up to spec for full Ubuntu, imho). I'm really liking Xubuntu, maybe even more than the full thing. Anyway, it runs thunderbird and firefox and wesnoth, so I'm happy=-)
[1] Actually, not quite: The knackered old Toshiba is still in a box in the attic with Win98 installed. I'm tempted to dig it out and put Damn Small Linux just to get rid of this footnote, but the truth is I don't think I can be bothered.
And how will I run Space Empires? Well, I have this rather shiny Dell desktop running XP on my desk at work, and I'm allowed to play games in my lunch hour=-) Does SE5 run on Vista? Maybe we should be bugging Aaron to work on a Linux version rather than maiking it Vista-happy. After all, the Linux gaming scene is considerably smaller than the Windows one, so a high-quality commercial game like SE5 arriving on the platform might get a bit more attention than for Windows, and cause a bit more of a stir. Especially now he's gotten most of the killer bugs out of it.
My next project: Buy a knackered laptop from ebay and cannibalise it to fix the broken hinge on my Vaio. And maybe put a bigger hard drive in there while I've got it in pieces.
Oh, and learn programming. I'm thinking Python.
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