Waterloo Flat

Eee that's grand

Ha...does Linux actually need us - by us I mean the mere humanoid users? Sometimes it seems not. I thought I'd log into Ubuntu and the good ol' fsck did its "automatic run every 30 boots" routine.

R momentarily distracts me I deal with her swiftly and walk back into the room and the XP logon screen is sitting there throbbing at me. I forgot the darn thing rebooted as well so with my grub set-up it went straight to XP. So here I am writing this and playing around with XP again - cleaning up my e-Music remote install before hunting out some music. However I have been doing a bit more booting into Linux after one of my brief "linux diets".

What inspired to give up my highly valued stress cells to Linux again?- a sweet little thing called the ASUS Eee. I don't own one but it certainly grabbed my, and a lot of other people's attention. It also grabbed my imagination. Could this Internet appliance market be little linux's best chance? Not only that but did it denote benefits to the wider OSS community by way of hardware compatibility and web services for all platforms? Let's hope so. Will there be more Emusic's?

E-music is one of those services that truly works at being cross-platform. The Linux install was pretty good for me once I had dug out the right commands and it has worked really well. I haven't worked out how to move the default location for the downloaded files folder (called My Emusic in unnecessarily window-esque fashion) yet and sometimes the window doesn't open properly and you have to drag it to a manageable size but overall it was pretty painless (in truth less painful than the Windows install - this confused me at the install options stage). So hats off to Emusic.

Of course there is the issue that MP3 is a proprietary format rather than open source so none of these files would play on a default install of Ubuntu. But that's another story.

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