{"id":7,"date":"2004-03-02T01:57:39","date_gmt":"2004-03-02T06:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otac.isa-geek.net\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2006-11-03T14:40:21","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T19:40:21","slug":"migrating-to-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otac.isa-geek.net\/blog\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Migrating to Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The topic for discussion today is  migration: to Linux to be exact. I&#8217;ve toyed with the idea of giving up Windows entirely, and I am just about ready to do so&#8230;first though, I&#8217;m spending some time learning about the innards of Linux, configuring it for the desktop, as well as improving it for the server. I expect that I&#8217;ll have some very <A HREF=\"http:\/\/home.wi.rr.com\/tatay\/cartoons\/gossamer0155.jpg\">&#8220;interesting&#8221;<\/A> times, particularly since my goal is to replicate my current Windows functionality in Linux. This includes the media center PC that me and Jean-Paul (my son) built, WiFi access, DVD\/CD read\/write, and the ability to use a couple of other exotic devices.<br \/>\nCheck out the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www3.sympatico.ca\/duanecato\/usb_flash_mp3_player_in_linux.htm\">how-to article<\/A> I put together on using my new USB MP3 player under Linux; and feel free to comment on the changes I&#8217;m making to the whole site and blog &#8211; no flames, please!<br \/>\nLatah, seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The topic for discussion today is migration: to Linux to be exact. I&#8217;ve toyed with the idea of giving up Windows entirely, and I am just about ready to do so&#8230;first though, I&#8217;m spending some time learning about the innards of Linux, configuring it for the desktop, as well as improving it for the server. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greymatter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otac.isa-geek.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otac.isa-geek.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otac.isa-geek.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otac.isa-geek.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otac.isa-geek.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/otac.isa-geek.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otac.isa-geek.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otac.isa-geek.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otac.isa-geek.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}