Comments on: An Embarrassment of Riches http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=550 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Darrin Chandler http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=550&cpage=1#comment-59 Darrin Chandler Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:49:11 +0000 http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=550#comment-59 The primary barrier is resistance to immersing yourself in the new environment. It's common enough for Windows users to dink with Linux for years but never feel comfortable enough to switch over. As you've seen in your short immersive experience it's easy enough if you can just live there a while. Like learning a foreign language, to really get anywhere you have to stop translating from old to new and begin thinking the new way. The primary barrier is resistance to immersing yourself in the new environment. It’s common enough for Windows users to dink with Linux for years but never feel comfortable enough to switch over. As you’ve seen in your short immersive experience it’s easy enough if you can just live there a while. Like learning a foreign language, to really get anywhere you have to stop translating from old to new and begin thinking the new way.

]]> By: Erbo http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=550&cpage=1#comment-58 Erbo Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:18:45 +0000 http://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=550#comment-58 Fedora and CentOS do much the same thing. I had no trouble installing NASM on either of them. And the docs got parked under /usr/share/doc, easy to find and bookmark in Firefox. And don't forget packages like Bochs and Sun xVM VirtualBox, that do the job of VMware and do it for free. Fedora and CentOS do much the same thing. I had no trouble installing NASM on either of them. And the docs got parked under /usr/share/doc, easy to find and bookmark in Firefox.

And don’t forget packages like Bochs and Sun xVM VirtualBox, that do the job of VMware and do it for free.

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