Getting started with Kubuntu

The Ultra 40 that I won arrived on Wednesday, but I've been too busy since then to do much with it until now.

I have spent a little bit of time carrying out some research. My initial plan was to triple boot this server. First as a FreeBSD machine -- it's my preferred Unix flavour, my other Unix boxes run FreeBSD, and it gives me the opportunity to carry out FreeBSD testing on a 64 bit platform.

Then with Solaris 10. I want to carry on the work that I've already started with DTrace, and get some more experience with other Solaris technologies.

Finally, as a Windows XP box. Two reasons for this. First, Photoshop. I take quite a lot of pictures, and, not currently having a Dual Core Mac to hand, Photoshop on XP is my preferred image editing system. I also have something of a workflow built around it. The other reason is games. I don't get much opportunity, but when it arises I can quite happily while away the time playing Half Life 2.

That's not quite what happened.

Day 1 of 60: First boot

After a few phone calls along the way to find out where it had got to, the workstation arrived today a little after midday. I was greeted with two large boxes, one containing the machine itself, the other containing a far smaller box with the keyboard and mouse. As a friend has already remarked, there's a certain something about new computer smell.

ENOSERVER

No, I haven't given up already. Although the box was supposed to arrive on the 5th there's been no sign of it so far. I did try using the tracking number that Sun sent me at mysun.sun.com.

Sadly that just gives me:

Thank you for your interest in Order Status. It will take three business days to activate your Order Status entitlements.

I've been on the phone to them, and they do assure me that it will arrive later today.

In the meantime, here's something else I've been working on -- scrollable commit timelines for SVN::Web.