This Year 2026 is the Year of Linux, for me.
BIG Linux has eye-catching, one of the best Linux Desktop.
I do not know the names.
They are named in Brazilian but Pantheon tops the list.
Next the Modern Dedktop.
There is Vanilla and 6 altogether.
Debian GNOME should take a leaf out of BIG Linux.
Debian needs a facelift. Instead of lumping all Desktop Types under one hood, each should have its own personality. The understanding Linux application can be curated as in CachyOS.
CachyOS installation on my Laptop failed thrice.
What did I do next?
I installed BIG Linux Modern Dedktop.
Just like Debian which can be installed multiple times in a single system, BIG Linux can be installed multiple times with a different Desktop.
I go for the beauty.
BlueStar Linux that showed the way.
BIG Linux has taken it a bit further.
THANK you all Linux Developers for what they do to uplift Linux Experience.
CAT Story
I love catfish utlity in Linux.
Catfish is the default file Search Engine.
In my Debian GNOME, it is the third icon behind USB Formatter and USB Writer.
My cat story is about real cats.
Before, that why Linux Developer guys love cats?
Can anyone answer that for me.
Cat is the second Unix command I learned, after Ping.
But the ifconfig etho was my workhouse when CEYLON Internet was primitive.
When we connected to the internet with a Modem things were lazy.
We had to give a call and reserve a line.
I hated it.
Went to Singapore and bought a Router with many Ethernet Connections so that I could connect each level of our house.
Level 7 was the roof top garden.
I was at level 6.
My wife and daughter at level 4.
Dining room was at level 3.
My son was at level 2.
Level 1 was for unauthorized visitirs including begger.
Our house was open to everybody being a dictor mysely.
After JVP/NPP came into existence we put a gate and a padlock. It became two locks for the donestic aid and the gardener. I do not have to go and lock the gate.
Our domestic aid is no more.
She died due to short Supply of Medicine in hospitals under NPP.
Our gardner was living on medicine and no news about him. He was one of our University gardeners. He must be spending his paltry pension if he is still alive. Before, I joined the University it was pensionable service.
It became Provident Fund.
I had a fairly good base and collected every penny but after a long delay.
If it was a pension, now I am in Australia, I would not be able collect any dues. I have to submit a written documents to say alive before getting the pension of the last month.
Continuing on the Cat Story.
Cat stands for concanate in Linux.
I hate cats.
One of them jumped on my little squirrel.
I could not rescue it.
Got hold of her tail and thrash her until my anger dessipated and the squirrel was released but dead due to asphyxia.
Six weeks later I handed over to one of my distant aunt who was as black as the cat herself.
In my late years we had a Ginger Cat and Black (Bunty) Cat.
Both of them died tragically.
Black Cat was caught by the municipality guy to feed the masses who come to Kandy during Esala Perahara.
Cat and Dog flesh are substitutes for chicken. I stop esting chicken on this ground alone.
