What I accomplished this weekend

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Yeah I did get a copy of Red Hat 7.1 installed and running on Friday night, then I was able to figure out how to download and install the latest version of Mozilla on that installation and do a little web-surfing late Saturday night/Sunday morning. There’s definitely a learning curve to this bad-boy, and my initial impression is that the learning curve is higher than a typical version of Windows. You don’t have to learn any DOS commands to run Windows and install new software or updated versions of software. I had to learn some terminal commands to get Mozilla installed. That right there is more knowledge than you need to install it on Windows. It’s just one area of OS operation, but installing software is an important one for me.

The learning will continue, but with everything else I’ve got going on, it’ll be a part time learning project for now, which is why I went with what is basically a throw-away install of 7.1 instead of the newer versions.

Share with your friends!
LinkedInBlueskyMastodonThreadsRedditBuffer

Similar Posts

  • Do you feel lucky?

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Blogrolling.com has a couple of new features. First, there’s the random “I’m feeling lucky” link that you can add to your blogroll. (See the Current Event Blogs over *pointing to the right of the page* there) Then there is the RecipRoll Code, which can automagically list the blogs who are using blogrolling to link to…

  • | |

    What Was Your Major and Does It Matter Now?

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 3 minutes

    If you’ve been reading much of the news about the recent Equifax data breach, you may have seen someone asking whether the Chief Information Security Officer is actually qualified for her job, based on her undergrad degree being in music. As others have pointed out, what her undergrad studies were probably didn’t have much to…

  • Completely unacceptable

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    That was what I thought when I saw this post about McAfee’s screw up with the definition files they released Friday morning. It’s completely unacceptable that those def files got released to the public, and that for five hours, the folks who were doing everything we tell them to do in terms of keeping udated,…

  • Long weekend hangover

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Yeah, for whatever reason going back to work today after the three day weekend was more of a drag than usual. Not that anything too major went wrong, it was just one of those days where everything seemed to be just a little “off”. No matter how had I tried, I just couldn’t muster the…

  • Linspire as VM

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Way back when, Linspire offered their OS for free for a limited time. I signed up for that, mostly in order to satisfy my curiousity. Eventually I got the ISO downloaded and tried to use it to build a virtual machine using VMWare Workstation. Unfortunately the install crashed. Since the install was kind of a…

  • Every Journey Starts With A Single Step

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I wonder if whoever said that included all the steps involved in packing the car? Nevertheless, the journey to Oregon begins, so pardon me if I’m a little slow responding to anything or sharing articles, etc. Not that you all shouldn’t be out enjoying the holiday weekend anyway! If you’re interested, I’ll probably be posting…

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

To respond on your own website, enter the URL of your response which should contain a link to this post's permalink URL. Your response will then appear (possibly after moderation) on this page. Want to update or remove your response? Update or delete your post and re-enter your post's URL again. (Find out more about Webmentions.)