Enginerd's Stuff

I seem to get busier that I ever thought imaginable the end of every semester and this spring is no exception. I addition to all my school work and student related duties I was offered the opportunity to take part in a private beta test of a new operating system.

For anyone that reads posts here regularly you know that I have taken quite an interest in Linux in the last few months. With this interest came a few new people I started following on twitter that share a passion for Linux. One of these people happens to be the developer responsible for maintaining the Linux Mint LXDE Distribution. He decided to start up a side project called Peppermint that is a fork of Lubuntu and Linux Mint. This is where I got to help in a small way.
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I remember when Vista was released no one wanted to switch from XP myself included. I did end up moving to Vista when I bought a new laptop. I was met with some of the problems that were rumored but I also liked some of the aesthetics it offered and the push in a new direction, even if it had some speed bumps.

With the desktop I recently built I received a free upgrade to 7 when it was released. Free was all I needed to be willing to try it out. I was rather surprised to find out that I needed 20+ Gb of free space on my hard drive to upgrade but that aside my system was more than qualified to run it.
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