With the laptop on the dining room table I couldn’t wait to push the power button. Never mind the power cord. Within a minute or two, I had filled in
“root” and its password, on the login screen.
“root” and its password, on the login screen.
And… there it was, the Gnome desktop, ready to go. A quick click to the Mozilla browser confirmed that I was connected to my home’s 802.11b access
point. Too cool.
Moments before, the UPS guy had delivered a shipping box with a complete Red Hat equipped Centrino powered Linux laptop, courtesy of LinuxCertified,
Inc.
Morgan Lim, of LinuxCertified had offered to loan me one of their premier Linux machines for a product review. It took about 2.5 ms to accept his
offer. Being a Linux technology writer is a tough job.
Link: linuxplanet.com
