me with missy. I'm starting to get interested in doing more photo stuff. I have this great digital camera that I basically have only used for holidays. I realized that I have had a lot of fun looking at other peoples pictures, so I'm gonna try to get more stuff up. My obsession with my dog will probably manifest itself quite a bit with my choice of photos. :P  

tale of two linux reviews: photos

This is the CDs for the live CD review.


This is my main desk setup in my room.


This is "the lab." Maybe I can call it "Jasonic Labs." I dunno.

The machine without a front is the Celeron 2.4 Ghz on an intel 865PERL board with 256MB of DDR400 and a GeForce FX 5600.

The black antec case is my server, running Tao Linux 4.01 with a proud uptime of about 50 days now. If you put laydros.org in your address bar to get here, the redirect you ran into is hosted on that server.

The machine under the table on the left is the PII 450, now running RedHat 7.3, to be my older test machine for the Linux Music and Sound review.

And the blue one is of course my Blue & White PowerMac G3.

the tale of two linux reviews

ok, I'm gonna blog this stuff. Hopefully.

I'm doing two tipmonkies big reviews right now. After all the traffic generated from the linux distro's review i did, we had an offer from No Starch Press to do book reviews. This is the same company that did the Absolute BSD book that I loved, so I was all over it. I got the first book (hopefully of many) today, and its Linux Music and Sound. It already looks very good, but it's from 2000. For a linux software book that would be like getting a 60's book on cars. So I decided to set up two systems in my lab. A PII 450 running redhat 7.3 and a Celeron 2.4 running the newest Ubuntu. Hopefully this will let me judge the book both on how it applied when written, and how well it still applies.

The second project is a live cd distro review. We had lots of requests for this. Martin is going to do Deb/Knoppix based ones, I will do all of the others. I currently have downloaded about 10 different ones. I have two more coming through bit torrent right now. The idea is to get a bunch and pick the half-dozen or so most valid for the reviews. It will probably also be a dual machine review, both on my laptop (mainly to check for WiFi support) and on the Celeron box.

The reason I have no plans for this stuff on my main box?
I currently have an 11 Day, 21 Hour, 36 Minute uptime. And it's Windows XP! :)