Hyo Byun

I used to have the dd-wrt frimware on my Linksys wireless router. Reliability was great, but I noticed that everything was going too slow. At most I was getting 100 kb/s though my cable connection. I didn’t know what was up, so I switched to Tomato. I wish I’d done it earlier.

Not only are most of dd-wrt’s features also Tomato, there was a huge speed improvement. For example, I could be running vnc, ftp transfers, bittorrent without a hitch. I was much closer to what the speed should be. I also noticed that wlan to lan transfers were about 10 times faster on Tomato. Tomato also featuers some great user end features, such as live usage graphs. The user interface also looks great. My issue with dd-wrt was probably an uncommon one, but if your having speed issues with dd-wrt, try Tomato.

I’ve been a Windows user since I was about 8. I have experimented with linux before, but I always ended up going back to Windows. Part of the reasons were I was pretty big on video games, which often arn’t avaliable on Linux. Only recently I’ve noticed I basically stopped gaming, so I decided to switch to Linux. I had been wanting to reformat my Vista instillation, but this time I installed Ubuntu.

Everything went very smoothly, and so far I’m very satisfied. It has been about two weeks since the install, and I have no desire to back to Windows. All of the required drivers appeared to be pre-installed. This was a surprise because on Windows installations, I had to go to my manufacturer’s website and download the drivers after a reformat.I easily found replacements for programs though the package manager. Despite popular belief, most applications don’t require the use of the terminal.

The performance and stability of Linux is rock solid. Everything loads up VERY quickly, and startup is at least twice as fast than Windows’ startup. You might also expect a complicated OS built by thousands of individuals that had been released for free, to be unstable. This is not the case however. I still have not witnessed any glitches or crashes. You can also forget about rebooting regularly. I’ve kept this computer on for about a week without any adverse effects. Even updates don’t require reboots.

Switching from Windows to Linux really wasn”t that difficult. The basics are the same. Unfortunately, you will proabably end up having to use the terminal sometimes if you wish to take things further.  However, there are plenty of instructions online along with a huge community of individuals that are willing to help you out.

If you’re willing to get your hands dirty, try out Linux.

This must be at least the twentieth time I’ve restarted my website. I have to stop doing this, but I was unhappy with the direction my blog took last time. It was full of crappy posts. I also never updated it, and nobody came to it.

This time however, I plan on updating the blog everyday. The theme thats currently active wasn’t made by me, but I’ll eventually tweak it or make a new one out of scratch.

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