"In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." –John 16:33

Linux weekend

I am working on a program for a friend.  I wrote a program for him in Windows, but the whole setup is way too expensive because it uses some special libraries that cost a lot of money.  I have already written many of the libraries we need, I know how to write most of the rest, and what I do not know will be fun to learn.  So I spent a good chunk of Saturday getting our laptop ready to write the program for Linux.  I downloaded Kubuntu Edgy Eft and had KDevelop and everything else I needed to program up and running within a couple of hours.  I was very pleasantly surprised because the last time I tried this, I was never able to get the wireless going properly.  This time, it just worked.  I left the laptop as a dual boot machine for now, but believe I will be able to convert it completely over to Linux when Feisty Fawn comes out.  I do not think I will make the switch until after the school year because we do all of our homeschool on the computer and it would be too disruptive, but I am looking forward to the summer when I can make the change.  This all just keeps getting better and better.

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2 Comments

  1. You are behind on my math assignments I think. I finished my corrections last night. Every day, I have been doing one lesson a day. One day I missed out because I did a review. The other review was done along with a lesson in the same day, so I might be one day ahead only. But your layout tells me that I am five days ahead. I am on Lesson 22 right now and you put me on Lesson 17.

    P.S. The printer says we are low on color ink cartridges.

  2. Dad

    Christian, be very sure you are looking at week 23. If that is true, I will change it. After we get balanced again, we will move ahead a little faster, if you would like, but we want to get your workload back in balance before we do any extra. Definitely do one lesson per day (lessons 22-26 this week) since that is where you are.

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