I've decided to switch to a different distribution of Linux. After a while of long and somewhat painful thoughts, I finally came to realize that Ubuntu isn't well-supported enough. Seriously, Canonical hasn't even given us Firefox 2.0 yet, and at the same time, version 3.0 is on the horizon. on top of that, I haven't gotten any updates for about a month now. That's almost unheard of in the Linux community.
You have to give Canonical Kudos, though. Ubuntu has been the Desktop-Linux of choice for a long time now... Perhaps a record (as ArkLinux/ArchLinux seemed to get some odd bugs that prevented me from using it, and most others hadn't even brushed the top list)for longest-running.
Candidates for my next Distro is Gentoo (which I have some minute familiarity with, which is pretty good so far, despite extremely difficult installations), LFS (Linux-From-Scratch, not really that close), and of course, Debian, the root of Ubuntu.
Of course, I'm trying to keep an open mind, trying to get further then just Linux. I'm currently looking out for Haiku (Because BeOS is incapable of dieing) and AROS (the Amiga Research Operating System — because Workbench simply can't be beat and AmigaOS4 doesn't even have REAL hardware). I'm also interested in SkyOS, but because it costs $30 just to beta test, I'm heading in other directions.
In the meanwhile, I've made good progress with development in a Windows environment. I just compiled SDL with the MinGW tools and MSYS environment. And if you haven't noticed how pretty this post is, that's because you don't recognize good HTML with" " and "—" written everywhere.
And I'm sorry for not writing that review of Okami, I've been stuck in a sort of "Furry Media Explosion," and I can't seem to get out. Eragon is just too good of a book.
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