Hugh's Worthless Blog

Several major distributions made major releases recently, including SUSE with version 10 and Mandriva with their 2006 release, but I think the distro that is really shaking up the world is Ubuntu and their latest release of 5.10, the "Breezy Badger". Their new release does not add too much that is truly breathtakingly new, but they have polished up many little problems from 5.04 ("Hoary Hedgehog"), and made a completely open, 1-CD install distro that has solid open support and updates, and with firm financial ground. They appear to be the "Red Hat" of the era, the distro of choice for academia and other "self-supporters", those who do not want to or cannot shell out lots of cash for support and have the knowledge to do it themselves. Red Hat themselves are just a 100% commercial company now with some pretty lofty support fees, and I do not consider Fedora stable enough to use on anything except as an experimental test platform. My big US hope wa

Well, I see my last post was at the beginning of the playoffs before the Cards swept the Padres. Unfortunately, their season ended last night as they were shut down by Roy Oswalt and the Astros. And the Red Sox did not have much of a chance either. In any case, two great pitching staffs will be playing in the World Series this year and it should be interesting to see what happens. However, the Cardinals still had a great season having won 100 games two years in a row and making it to the World Series last year and to the NLCS this year. A World Series championship would have been nice, but what other team has lost in one NLCS and lost in one World Series in the past two years? The answer: The Astros in about one week. Hey, I have a 50% chance on getting this right, and even with the way the Astros shut down the Cardinals, I am still betting on the White Sox to finish them off.

Playoff time again! Go Cards ! I sure hope they don't choke against the Padres . They were not looking so good late in September, but they did come back to life this past weekend to end up with 100 wins for the season. Unfortunately, the dreaded Yankees are again in the picture, but I want to see them beat the Angels just so the Red Sox can kick their butts again like last year. I think a repeat Red Sox-Cardinals Series would be nice, but this time the Cards had better show some life!

Wow, I can't believe people are actually spamming blog comments now. I had to go back and delete some annoying comments from my extremely boring posts. I was wondering why so many people suddenly wanted to comment about Linux distributions!