I received an email a few moments ago. It was a reminder to update my listing in the Linux registry. It was for-real meaning non-spam and I immediately recognized what it was. It was like an old friend coming in for a visit. (Pretty sick lonely nerd speak, right?)
I say old friend as I have been playing with Linux since 1993. Long before it became a popular business system. My book shelf this day is full of the publications and study material it took for me to understand UNIX and the Linux flavor. It has given me a much better understanding of operating systems and network operations.
I thoroughly enjoy the spirit and the freedom of the OS. Albeit has become very commercial these days. That is part of the reason I have strayed away a bit. It has become “another operating system”. All the “real” (commercial) applications I run these days, Adobe Suite, Rhinoceros, Accounting, Vetric run in MS Windows. For the reasons of which Apple likes to brag (UNIX based), I have used Linux to run my emails and web browsing. To be honest, that is not enough to make it my main desk OS.
Future application for me is to turn the box I am using today (AMD 64 Athlon X2) into a Linux server. That is the real strength for Linux.