Hugh's Worthless Blog

How about one post on three completely different topics? I'll start with my usual boring drivel about Linux distributions to get rid of all but the diehards. Canonical has just released the second Beta of Ubuntu 6.06 (The Dapper Drake) which fixes "serious flaws in the installer". Hmmm, maybe that is why when I was trying to install Xubuntu onto a Pentium II box it got stuck and went nowhere (I ended up using DSL instead which installed flawlessly). I guess the final release of Ubuntu is supposed to be ready June 1, so they only have one more full month. Next topic is a much more popular topic of discussion, Major League Baseball!! Who would have guessed that near the end of April the only three teams in all of MLB with 15 wins would be in the NL Central? Okay, so maybe people would have guessed Houston and the Cardinals, but they would have also guessed the Yankees and maybe the White Sox. Whereas the White Sox are close, it is good to see the Yankees having to play c...

Aha, the MEPIS team has released an Alpha of MEPIS 6.0 which is based on the soon to be released Ubuntu "Dapper Drake". As usual it is available for download from ftp.wustl.edu . I will have to try it out myself, as I haven't tested any of the Flight releases of Dapper Drake myself yet, having stayed pretty much with 5.10 (Breezy Badger) on most of our systems here. Frankly, I am starting to prefer GNOME over KDE, even though I use KDE on my main Linux station in my office (I do prefer konsole over gnome terminal, but that may just be due to familiarity). I'll have to test out the MEPIS 6.0 Alpha as a LiveCD and see how it looks. One thing I don't understand is why Ubuntu must have separate LiveCD and Install CD versions where MEPIS has always worked fine just having one CD do both. Go figure. As for the Dove Awards , as expected Chris Tomlin walked away with a bunch of the top awards including Song and Artist of the Year. And it sounds like there was an unannoun...