Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (Lenny) is Released!

It's a scary thought. Computers have completely usurped pencil and paper. We all store our precious family pictures and important data on our computers and some of us go the extra step of securing this data from prying eyes through encryption, obscurity or at least strong passwords. Some of us manage data for others, too. Say you manage servers or websites. Would your family be able to get data to clients? Would they even know where it existed on your machine? Would your family know that as a webmaster there are many memberships you belong to or forums, chat groups, etc? Would your family be able to tell which of the 5 versions of patches and upgrades you have stored in each project's sub-directory was current or even applied?

Do you hear a bird, a sweet little bird? A Songbird?

It's finally time. And I've graduated. I've moved from the mystique to the easy. See, I do believe that's what it's all about. Generally speaking, everyone wants their computer to be a tool they use efficiently. They don't need a headache, and strange, unexplained actions or sequences that we must perform but don't understand don't enchant us with computers. So for that part of computers, most of us are "windowcized". We expect point and shoot, or very few clicks to happiness. We might as well have it done for us.

EDITI just made a little video⁰ of a quick package installation using aptitude. Those using Debian and its package management schemes can't say enough about how sweet it really is /EDIT

Pre-Goods Rant

It's not easy to please Humans.  Most of us demand gold if we are to give up our tin and have many other unreasonable expectations of things.  It's usually from all the lines of BS that we hear.  Our heads get filled with fantasy and it's pretty attractive, a damn site more attractive than what we've already got.  For example when some kid tells you that his car is better than yours.  Or, his computer never gives him trouble, or - I can do this...can you?

Update Notifier

So, I am sitting here at the dining room table with my daughter this dreary looking Thursday morning. She sits to my right eating her cereal, infrequently punctuating my news reading with quirky remarks about this and that. She's so wonderful. When, from out of nowhere a tiny orange "thing" appears up in my status bar.

Just a few short weeks ago we all got the ability to install nVIDIA the "Debian way" again as it hasn't worked for a while during testing. Way to go team, hooo-RAH! From a fresh installation of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 - Lenny, it's easy to get the nVIDIA drivers installed if you've got that kind of card on your box. My laptop has an 8400 something, something and playing games like Nexuiz is a joy on it. GoogleEarth and Celestia are pretty cool, too.