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Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father. ~ Colossians 3:17

Fedora Linux and Cloud Drives

10/30/2015

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Due to a corrupt file on my laptop hard drive, and HP/Compaq's lack of support for my laptop (I bought it in 2007), I decided install the Fedora 22 operating system.  Fedora is a Linux distribution.  I have been operating the laptop in dual boot, Windows Vista and Fedora 19 for 2 years.  I found that I could address my entertainment needs (Hulu, Netflix, Nick Jr., History, YouTube, and DVD's) in Fedora.  I also found I could bring 90% of my development software over using native Linux or running under Wine.  I may be the only person running TinyCad / FreePCB for drawing schematics and PCB's, developing software for Windows using Code::Blocks, and developing firmware under MPLABX and Arduino on Fedora.  Well, maybe not the only person, but it takes a special kind...

Also, I decided that since OneDrive is not supported on Linux, I'd drop my use of that software.  I've backed up in time to the use of thumb drives and home network for moving files around.  It's just as well that I'm not taking up space on a server in the cloud somewhere.  Limiting demand of that sort of thing will reduce the costs of the Internet and save on fossil fuels.  It's a good move for humanity, I think...

Hopefully one day I'll be back to working on things that make sense to post here.
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