A new distro, a new gadget
Here we go. Another improved distribution of Linux to try (and buy, because the price is so affordable). I’m still a fan of Linux Mint, and this evening I burned an ISO of “Gloria” (version 7 Release candidate 1). Usually I’m patient enough to wait for beta and RC versions to pass, but there’s a confidence level with this distro that made the risk acceptable. The usual easy install, where only one of my partitions is erased and reformatted; the Vista stuff is untouched, and after about fifteen minutes and one reboot, bere we are with a newer, faster Linux ready to use. This time around, even my sound works without any tweaking or wondering what forum might hold a clue to a puzzle. Two thumbs up.
My visit to the opthalmology clinic this afternoon left me with a “return to work” date in hand. I’m very impressed with a device called a “single point optical coherence tomograph” that provides a coloured graph of the state of my optical nerve. This is a personal thing; I really appreciate that nerve, now that there’s less than before. Vision loss is really not something to look forward to, and right now every optimistic word from my surgeon is received with great joy. To use the name of this Linux distro – Gloria.
My coffee supplier is in the midst of a major renovation of their shop, and I’ve had to compromise. For the next couple of weeks we’ll be drinking a blend made from a couple of packages of Espresso grind along with the last of my Costa Rica. It can’t be worse than some of the slop sold in the big chain stores, and then things should be business as usual. At least, it had better be, or we’re going to have a lot of miserable java-heads around here. The dog doesn’t count, even if she feels that the term Java concerns her alone.
