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Handover Phist: Polishing the Penguin

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 8, 2006

[ Thanks to Jason
Cutting
for this link. ]

“I broke my computer. I mean, really broke it. I did something
to my Slackware machine that broke things in a way I’ve never seen
before, it was quite creative, really. My only advice is don’t
install three different versions of Gnome on a platform that
doesn’t support it. It did give me the opportunity reinstall Linux
on my desktop computer though, and I decided to try a different
flavour. You can’t eat Rocky Road ice cream every day, sometimes
you want cappuccino. Today I decided to give Debian a shot. Can you
believe I didn’t like it?

“People who know me are probably a bit goggle-eyed at the last
sentence there, but it’s true…!”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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