Well I haven’t been doing much coding lately. Most of what I am particularly interested in requires that I spend a lot of time researching it. Gods of War II also came out, so that will get a hefty amount of my free time. I am also trying to launch a simple blog for my friends independent film company. Hopefully it will be done soon.

One thing I did do was install Edubuntu on my old computer. My father gave me a dual PIII 450 with 512 mb of ram before he moved away. It was his baby and now its mine. For the last couple of years I had it running Suse 8 and used it as a web server and Linux programming box. I almost always connected to it through SSH, but my son would use it at times and play games. Now that I am paying for this web server and have shell access to it I didn’t have much use for it anymore, so I installed Edubuntu on it for my son.

I have used Ubuntu many times of my laptop, I love it and it runs great, except the wireless networking never worked well and it got to the point that I couldn’t stand having to run a script every time my computer hibernated and occasionally log into the router from my desktop to delete the corrupted lease. Hopefully this will be better in Fiesty Fawn.

With Edubuntu I started off with just the live cd because I didn’t want to waste time installing it. My son loved the games and it worked perfectly so I decided to go ahead and install it. A short time later it was ready to go.

I can’t think of a better thing to do with an old computer. This computer would never run a usable windows OS, but with 30 minutes of time I had a completely usable computer set up for my son full of educational software and games. I spent several hours a couple days later downloading patches, configuring themes, downloading codecs, etc, but this was primarily for fun since it didn’t effect my son at all and I don’t actually plan on using the computer. If you have youngins in the house and a crappy computer you couldn’t go wrong with an Edubuntu install.

I will probably put Fiesty Fawn on my primary desktop when it comes out. There is a Linux only app I have been dying to play with.