As I mentioned yesterday, I am regularly across several different operating systems over the course of the average day.  Typically this includes Mac OS 10.4 (Panther), Windows XP Professional and Ubuntu Linux Gutsy Gibbon.
Recently however I’ve begun to think in earnest about ways to streamline my computational activities – and particularly to shed my reliance on proprietary software, most noteably Windows/Microsoft.
At the end of the day though the thought had always lingered that I’d have to maintain at least a minimal presence in Windows – like it or not. One …