Fitz

I’m running Fedora 7 on my old laptop.  Take a look at Yahoo’s message to me after signing out of Flickr and clicking the “Return to Yahoo” link:

Windows, Mac, and — what, no Linux?  You’ve got to be kidding!  Firefox is only supported for Windows and Mac?  Why on earth would my operating system matter, as long as it’s the same browser?

Well, Yahoo, I recommend that you stop censoring content based on my operating system.  It’s bad enough that you’re doing it based on browser.  And this from the developers of the Yahoo User Interface (YUI) that supposedly has wide browser support!  I suppose I should at least thank them for providing the link to continue “living on the edge” and not completely banning me from the site.

If you liked the post about Firefox running from a USB drive, you’ll love this one.  Damn Small Linux, or DSL, is a linux distribution capable of booting from a USB drive.  This tiny operating system can run completely within your system’s memory, requiring only 128MB of ram.  Pretty cool, huh?  It comes with command line utilities, media apps, Firefox, and office apps, among other things.

I’ve actually used DSL from a bootable cd to recover data after a hard drive crash on multiple occasions — what a handy tool.  It sure beats paying someone else to recover your data