A beard of bees.

[reddragdiva]

• You know, I really need to resolve more of my life problems with the question: "What would markeris do?"

• I have a special way of knowing things. (courtesy ciphergoth)

I have installed Ubuntu Natty Narwhal. The new Unity interface is stupidly shit. If you woke up one day and thought, "Gosh, I'd really like to make using my universal general-purpose computer that I can do ANYTHING with feel like I'm using a locked-down phone running an obsolete version of Android through the clunky mechanism some l33t h@xx0r used to jailbreak it, I can't think of a better user experience," this gets you quite a lot of the way there. If you want it to feel a bit more like a computer, log out, select "Ubuntu Classic" and log back in and then you'll only have the Mac ripoff menu arrangements to contend with.

I suspect I'm going to get a BlackBerry 9300 on about £10/mo if I can find that. I've spotted some weird variants of such a plan in the wild.

I am planning to go to the Pembury on Sunday evening. Anyone else?

Comments

[mstevens]

Debian is quite good at the moment.

Although that's obviously because they just had a release, it'll become old again over the next couple of years.

But they seem to have got the release frequency to a state that's moderately tolerable (at least for me) if it supports your hardware.

[reddragdiva]

And a remarkable number of home Debian users just run Sid.

[mstevens]

I've always liked the delicious refreshing taste of stable.