Empty Cage

My laptop has always been of the sexy Turion64 variety. But my Windows was shipped with a 32 bit operating system, and so, despite moving into Linux-Fedora territory I have never adventured into the land of 64 bit. (Mostly because it always seemed more buggy than did it’s 32 bit cousins). But now that Fedora 12 and its PAE have let me and my one gig of RAM down completely I feel as though it is time for Syd’s next great step. And I’m backing up.

Right now, for me, two important things that seem to be missing from my Linux experience are that my tablet seems to be no more useful for drawing than taking a sharpie to my monitor, and, for the love of all that is holy… I want my Nvidia drivers with 3D support back. I appreciate that nouveau does great work. And they are a free company and everything is squishy. But my laptop feels like it’s stuck in 2004 thanks to them.

So, let’s see if I can install a new OS without death befalling me. If this fails I’m dual booting with the Big W (And yes, Linus Torvalds, that is a threat).

I’m thinking of taking some of the “highlights” from Empty Cage and posting them here. It’ll make for weird arse continuity, since the blog was started last month, but hey, pay no attention to that woman behind the curtain. Plus, there are quite a few posts there that would fit in better here since they’re more about thoughts then ‘i am using the internet because I can’

Maybe with a referencing system.

Christ my web network is getting more and more intricate every stupid day.