If you notice a slight difference here, it is because I decided to change my default serif font in the CSS to Times Roman because the existing choices sucked when I looked at my weblog using Mozilla under LInux. How odd that True Type fonts, the thing I liked most about Windows 3.1, is the thing I miss the most under Linux.
Otherwise I don’t miss much, though it would be nice to get my Palm synchronizing with Linux, and to be able to use the scanner. Since the scanner, flash drive, and digital camera are all USB, I figured that getting the flash drive and digital camera to work would imply that the scanner should work as well, but no….. Linux obstinately refuses to see anything as a scanner but a video card that I didn’t even know this computer had.
Response time differences between my old Windows 98 system and Linux are a bit hard to figure. Some things seem to go more quickly, and some things more slowly. This machine is fairly robust for a Windows 98 system because Jack bought it for multimedia applications. However, it is at the low end of what is supported for graphical applications with Redhat 9 Linux. I am starting to fantasize about putting in more RAM memory, but that way lies madness. I keep reminding myself that this is a five year old machine.
I love having access to a Unix type shell again. I had used a shell product called Take Command under Windows for year, but it had some limitations due to the funkiness of DOS.