78 thoughts on “Tux Millionaire”

1. I know nothing about this stuff, but I’m the first post!

2. also that’s good to do is load mandrake. they’re cool as all hell. click here.

3. But wil, open source scares me. My microsoft representative told me that linux was a tool of the devil. And you have to beleive him, he works at a computer store, y’know.

4. Cool! Maybe I could try it at home! I have a dual boot machine at work running Redhat with KDE (probably not even 3.0!)

5. Damn, after spending the last four years becoming an engineer, it amazes me that I’ve learned more about geek tech stuff from your blog than from all my classes combined. Thanks again Wil.

6. *Watches pretty words fly over her head*
   God I wish I could be a real geek like you Wil

7. This is EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for because I AM terrified of Dual boots and partition magic!
   Thanks!

8. sweet, thanks for the link!

9. ooops… okay, so i guess the link didn’t come out… so, it’s http://www.linux-mandrake.com they actually have a version you can run “in” windows, too, so that’s cool… i wouldn’t run it on a slow computer though… and there’s nifty gui’s that are all pretty and you can download kickass themes for them. ah, anyhow. yay!

10. Thanks!

11. Damn you! I found knoppix a few days back, but now that you’ve found it and have told people about it it’s going to look like I found it via you.
    Damn you Wil Wheaton!

12. Unfortunately, it doesn’t run on PowerPC… Oh wait, with Mac OS X, I already have a Unix environment. What was I thinking?
    Down with M$oft!

13. No comprendo nada de Linux, but I’m glad to see you’re in a better mood today, Wil.

14. Wow.
    This could be the cure for my Linuphobia.
    Woo! No more public Linux-related panic attacks.
    In all seriousness…I have never said that before. anyway, In all seriousness i may consider this.
    Thank you.
    “Mama, Who is that masked man”
    “Son. It is El Wheatono! Protector of the weak and Nerdy!”
    “Bless you El Wheatono, Bless you!”

15. Dual-boot? Why not triple-boot! On my “fun” box I have MacOS, BeOS and Yellow Dog Linux, all of which I switch between routinely. Matter ‘o fact, I’m working on installing Gnome 2.2 on my Linux partition now.
    My box at the office, unfortunately, runs only Win2k. It’s stable, but…boring.

16. I’ve met Meister Knopper on a Linux con a few months ago. This guy has more *nix knowledge in his little finger than me in my whole head.
    Go and try it. You’ll love it, whether just for trying or as an installation basis system or as rescue disk. For me, it’s especially useful since I have DHCP and DNS on my network, so I can boot and have full net access without touching one config file.

17. I should give that distribution a try. I’ve attempted to load an old version of Red Hat without much success.

18. Always kind of wished that Fark would tell us who submitted which story. At least that way, when someone posts something crappy, we have someone to blame.

19. Thanks for posting this, I forgot the name of this program .
    I told my hubby about this and I wanted to try it out but that post was already buried.
    I have been wanting to try linux out for awhile now, I am really tired of being dependant on windows.
    Thanks again!
    Nice to see you rising above it all! 🙂
    Neph

20. I just started playing with knoppix this week.. I’ve got it running on a computer with no hard drive right now doing folding@home. Too cool. 🙂

21. Wil,
    The Screen Savers like ya 🙂
    I was watching the show tonight, and they were demoing a web browser. Low and behold, there was a prominent ‘tab’ on the browser with “wilwheaton.net” on it.
    Hang in there, don’t let the snert’s get ya down.
    I too am waiting for your book to come out.
    Neil

22. Ford, you’re turning into a penguin. Stop it.

23. If there was any hope of swaying me from the dark side that is MS, all hope was lost when I tried Knoppix. I found it slow, ugly, and unuseable. It lacks that Windows polish.
    Of course here comes the obligatory ‘don’t let the door hit you on the way out’, but hey, maybe next version. 😉

24. Wil,
    A few mos. ago I emailed you to see if you’d wanna appear on an Internet show I’m doing. Show 1 is up- see the release email below. Enjoy yr site & impressed that a celeb actually enjoys his fans. Particularly we’re gonna be doing an upcoming show in the next few mos. on religion/atheism/agnosticism & I think you might be an interesting guest- given yr views on that subject. I think it wd be a good way to branch out. Also you might consider doing an oral essay for a fututre show. Sorry to use this blog for the appeal but I’m no comp geek & have no idea if prior emails got hru w yr key thingy. Lemme know if interested & see details below. Later, DAN
    —– Original Message —–
    From: DAN SCHNEIDER
    Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 7:38 PM
    Subject: Omniversica Internet Radio Show
    http://www.sursumcorda.com/
    The 1st show of Omniversica is now up on the home page of http://www.sursumcorda.com . Hosted by Art Durkee & Dan Schneider the show will feature offbeat topics, interesting guests, & stuff you won’t hear on NPR, Top 40, or Talk Radio. Show 1 features Art & Dan’s opinions on a # of topics- plus essays by Art & Dan, as well as Jason Sanford. Art Durkee provides a # of musical interludes.
    Look for Show # 2 within a week- it will feature an exclusive interview from France with expatriate American poet James Emanuel, his translator Jean Migrenne, & other goodies.
    Future shows will include conversations with biologist Lynn Margulis, science writer Dorion Sagan, jazz critic Robert Levin, Soul Music maven Marc Taylor, as well as shows on race, religion, & other topics sundry & not so sundry.
    Just click on the link & you can stream the show via REAL Player. You can go to Real.com & download Real Player for free.
    ———————————————
    Dan Schneider, http://www.Cosmoetica.com
    The Best in Poetica seeks great poems & essays!

25. El Wheatono?
    By my estimation there are 1073 posts on this page.
    I have been wondering. Do you read *all* of them?
    I don’t doubt that you do coz…ya know…your a nice guy….and ya know….yeah. *blushes*
    Just thought i’d ask.
    It would be like seeing Father Christmas on TV, ya know? reasurance that you are real and not some idealised man who we all know couldnt possibly exist in the real world.
    I will just get my heterosexuality out of the jar now.
    Oh yeah. Microschmoft suck non monkey ass.
    See. On topic!

26. Heh! Interesting Wil! I don’t watch that Joe show myself. Not my type of thing. I don’t like seeing people being made fools uf (referring to the women that think “he” is a “millionaire”)
    Incidently, Fark also has this one over there about you. But I guess you probably already knew about that too 🙂
    http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=437632

27. GAH! Damned typos!

28. Hm…Linux that even I could do…interesting.
    Noticed the FARK headline. Thought about commenting, but since I don’t even acknowledge the existence of the show, it seemed kinda pointless 🙂
    But…pointless is what FARK is all about! Pardon me!
    PS: Glad you’re feeling back to your usual self!
    Shannon/Fiona_Applet

29. Yea, I posted that article about Wil because I was saddened that he was being driven away. Sparked quite a discussion on there–even Wil himself posted a comment on there about it! Incidentally that was also my first submission to Fark to get accepted. Yippee!
    Wil kicks ass.

30. That’s cool Icyshard. I didn’t read too far into the thread so I didn’t notice that Wil posted. Now I feel dumb! 🙂

31. If I try LINUX Bill Gates will have me killed.

32. I’ve been coming to your site for a few months no, just seeing what you have to say, and I know this is kinda off topic for the current post and all but I’m glad to see you feeling better. Keep up the good work and I hope your good mood sticks around for a while.

33. I’m glad to see you haven’t given up on the website. The trolls would have won if you had stopped updating. You say the writing for your book is taken at the expense of your website. You don’t need to write your dissertation as a blog entry, just a heads up on what’s happening.

34. Wil,
    HA, HA, HA, HA ,HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA. The best part about it is that I am still alive. Good luck on your new computer stuff.
    FG

35. Woohoo!
    Thanks for reminding me what the name of the program was…maybe now that I got a faster computer, I might actually try it out. 😉
    *cheers for Linux that doesn’t have to dual boot*
    Thanks thanks thanks! *big grin*

36. Hey Wil!
    My husband was using Linux for awhile before I would even look at it(He’s big into the whole free software thing). Being the human creature that I am I was very reluctant to try it, let alone have it as my OS. So what my husband did was set up a dual boot on my box. It took me a little time to get used to it, I just needed to get over my fear of change.But in no time at all I was zipping around it with no problem. I’m proud to say for 3 years now I’ve only been using Linux. Also my 2 children who are 10 & 6 only use Linux as well. We have no computers in our home that have Win-blows(Windows) on it and we are a better family for it.

37. Knoppix is a great distro to get people to try out linux. If you’re in a sysadmin/network type job I’d also recommend you try out telemetry box if you’re not familiar with open source offerings. It can help you try out some cool stuff like nagios and snort without going to alot of work to set it up the first time.
    Don’t spend too much time with rewrites Wil, I want to read what you want to write not what you think I want to read 😀

38. 2 in 1 day huh?
    I must have submitted over 200 times over the years and have not had even 1 single submission ever accepted! My submissions often kick the ass of the submissions they do accept too.
    Whoever was working the Fark admin today must have been a Wil fan. Maybe I need to impersonate a famous star.. then I’ll get my submissions in!
    Well, if anyone wants to submit a video clip to my site (silversow.com) I can almost guarantee that whatever it is WILL be accepted. I’ve only ever had about 8 submissions.

39. congatulations

40. Drakensykh: Nice multiple-reference in-joke there.
    “Ford, there’s an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they’ve worked out.”

41. I have heard about this before, but I am glad to hear there is a newer version. I am still planning at some point to install SusE on my old box once I wipe it again, and use that one to learn how to work Linux. If I get the hang of things, I plan to install it on the current box one day. But I am so skittish about it. Its a whole different language, different look, different way of thinking, everything. I feel like retard who still hasnt learned to tie her shoes and is being put in front of a computer and expected to be able to make it work, then again…
    Oh well, thanks, Wil for being such a great ambassador to Linux.

42. While we are talking about Linux. I just got my Zaurus SL-C700 from Japan. It is one of the new Linux based PDAs from Sharp and this thing really rocks. I have a report about my first experiences with the Zaurus and some interesting links at my web site (http://www.mocm.de/zaurus.html).

43. Wil,
    Go to Mr. T’s Bowl and have a heart-to-heart with that freaky blonde space-alien bartendress / owner’s wife hottie.
    It’ll help, trust me.

44. I have only had one Fark submission accepted – EVAR.
    Two in one day is very impressive.
    🙂

45. Just got the latest update for Jaguar (OSX 10.2.4) tonight. All I can say is that my CD-RW drive is now knackered after I installed it (CD burning works OK when I reboot under 9.2.2 Classic, so it’s gotta be something lurking in Jag that buttbuggered my burner). Linux makes me sad right now. 🙁
    Congrats on getting accepted at Fark. Wonder if you’ll ever try your hand at any Photoshop entries next.
    Oh BTW Wil, a friend once told me that you went by the net nick of “Rock Lobster” back in days of Ye Olde BBS’s. Truth?

46. Hmm…someday I’ll work up the courage to try out Linux… Someday….
    Glad to see you haven’t completely abandoned wwdn. I check every morning when I get into work, miss you when you haven’t updated. This is not to suggest that you should keep updating regularly, of course. If you’re happy updating, I’m happy reading. =)
    Good luck with everything, Wil.
    Em

47. Hey, Wil…you’ve been farking a lot lately. When are you going to jump into the Photoshop contests? I’m glad you’re not letting the trolls get the best of you.

48. I, on the other hand, am very glad that they don’t show who submitted links on Fark. I mean, most of the ones that I submit (that NEVER get posted) are pretty good in my estimation. But I’ll admit to throwing up some crap in the hopes that some will stick. Ew, that came out way more gross than I expected. I am not generally one for flinging feces at the screen. Even at Fark.

49. I have always been a fan of Norton’s Ghost. I am a dev that uses a number of different system setups but with limited resources, I can ghost one GOOD box with multiple OS’s and then do a complete restore in about 5 minutes. Pretty cool. This is also great for testing install packages. Create a clean image of what ever your target platform is, run your installs and if it fails you can revert in just a couple of minutes.

50. Cool, Wil!
    I read this on yer blog, went to knoppix, downloaded the iso, burned a copy and am running it right now. At work! Very, very cool.
    Tnx fer the tip.
    Zarz

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