My only real gripe about Firefox is the aforementioned jittery videos when its been open for too long. It's still useable on my partly 900mhz laptop although it starts slowing down a bit quicker with too many windows open, but that's just how things progress with newer software. You run 2004 era software and browsers on a 2004 era laptop it will run like new.

The addons are too valuable for me to consider using a different browser. No, it's not just about AdBlock Plus.

I find memory to be usually a non-issue, I would have to open 100+ tabs to get it past 1GB of usage, and even then on a decent computer even with that much open it does not drag at least in 3.5. Now, if you open 100 tabs of videos that might be a different story.

My current mentality is that hardware is dirt cheap, and trying to squeeze the most out of an old machine can only go so far. Efficiency has deminishing returns... I would not want to browse the web on a 450mhz Pentium II even if it had 2GB of RAM and super-omg-optimized-funroll-loops-gentoo-linux.

My first real adventures into Linux were with Gentoo. Building a system from the ground up like that is a great way to learn how all the parts work. It's not the only way, mind you, and it can be rather frustrating and confusing, but it's certainly a way. USE flags give you a very fine level of control over your packages. Maintenance is a bit more difficult than other distros.

Have a Debian server sitting beside me at home right now. It's primarily a NAS unit. Got Ubuntu on my laptop. Will probably be putting on my primary desktop soon, too.

I've tried out quite a number of distros, usually by way of VirtualBox.

Let's see... scrolling down this list I remember trying Dreamlinux, PCLinuxOS, Knoppix, SymphonyOS, OpenZaurus, Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, Kororaa, VidaLinux, Red Hat, OpenSUSE, Mandriva, TurboLinux, Vector Linux, GeexBox and probably others that I've forgotten. I've also tried OpenSolaris, Nexenta, m0n0wall, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. VirtualBox makes it so damn easy to try them out that I've gone a bit overboard at times.

If you want to experiment and don't want to fuck around with reinstalling over and over on a spare PC (or don't have a spare), go grab VirtualBox as I've mentioned twice now.

For desktop use, it's hard to compete with Ubuntu now. I do like Mint, but Ubuntu still has an edge in support and package availability (though both can usually be applied to Mint with minimal effort). For servers, I'm pretty comfortable with Debian. I still love Gentoo for some reason, though I don't do Gentoo installs anymore. I think emerge might be habit-forming... apt just doesn't give me that fuzzy feeling. I've got a Gentoo server at work that I built almost 5 years ago that does a million things for me.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Penguin, Orca' to 'Penguin, Orca, gentoo, killer whales, chase, escape, boat, attack, safety, prey' - edited by lucky760

Tags for this video have been changed from 'bird, water, antarctic, antarctica, south pole, freezing, ice, escape, hunt, prey' to 'bird, water, antarctic, antarctica, gentoo, orca, ice, escape, hunt, prey' - edited by xxovercastxx

This is a gentoo penguin, and I'm guessing a younger one since the adults grow to 2' to 3' tall. Note that gentoo penguins can swim in excess of 22mph. I'd say he'd have a pretty good chance of making it to one of those glaciers after that jerk, ambassdor, punted him into the water.

My only experiences with Vista on my own computers was before the retail release when only the enterprise edition was available. My MS contract at work landed me a copy. Driver support was still really weak at the time. There were no video drivers supporting OpenGL yet, for example, so obviously any OpenGL games were out of the question. But I really didn't have any problems aside from that. I like a lot of the small things they've done. The Gnome-like clickable explorer address bar, the improved wifi controls, the built-in support for image tagging and the "new" indexed search (which has actually been around since late NT4 or 2000).

Ultimately, though, I'm back to XP and I don't think I'll wind up with Vista again. As I game less and less, going back to Gentoo looks better and better.