A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I ported Minix, a teaching OS based on public domain Unix, from Atari ST (which I didn’t have) to a 68000-based system that I did have. Eventually, Linus added features to it and released it as Linux. I’ve been familiar with it for a while… 🙂

Most recently, I spent WAY TOO much time but finally got Ubuntu 23.10.1-Desktop working on a Microsoft Surface Pro 6. My friends and family suggested that I just give up since it was mostly not working (wouldn’t boot except from a live-USB). I didn’t want to be beaten by it, so I persevered and it’s now working though I haven’t put in the special drivers for the touchscreen yet.

I do have WSJT-X working on it and it works exactly as it does on Windows, so it’s fun and give more machines that I can use to make FT8 contacts.

Something about the simplicity and general cleanliness of Linux keeps bringing me back…