This weekend was a quiet one for me. At work on Friday, I had reached the end of the tether running Windows. XP Professional decided it was unhappy and I had been unhappy for awhile being away from “The Linux”. I had gotten more that way of late with moving to a position of openly evangelizing Linux solutions. I should be eating the dog food. So, instead of merely buying another laptop drive, I installed the Brown Distribution over the XP drive. Its always a liberating feeling when I make a basic change. I just feel more real, more in control, more “there” with Linux. its a better thing. Now I’ll enjoy this until I see the new Ubuntu come out and then I’ll consider whether I update or not. Truth be told, things are working very well for me now. Since the company uses Exchange, I just use OWA for calendaring only and use Thunderbird for email.
My phone, a Motorola Q9 global, still does what I want. Its the hub of my own collaboration approaches and lets me keep updated with email, calendaring, tasks and I don’t interface all that much with exchange.
I do have a infrequent need to access specific programs like Visio so I have a native Server 2008 box all pimped out looking like Vista for those rare times.
You can live in a Windows-centric world and use other tools. Its not hard to get there.
