09:20 – Yesterday I finally got around to building a new system on the Intel Atom motherboard I ordered a couple of months ago. Ultimately, that’ll be Barbara’s new system, but for now it’s sitting in the den next to my end table. I want to get the kinks worked out before I move it to her office and reclaim the hex-core beast she’s using now. For an extremely low-end processor, the Atom does pretty well. It probably doesn’t hurt that it’s a quad-core model. I installed 4 GB of RAM, which is the most that it accepts. Performance for web browsing and email is snappy, and that’s all Barbara does most of the time. It’s running Kubuntu 12.04 LTS. Just for the heck of it, I may blow that away and take a look at Linux Mint.
We’re still getting stuff cleaned up upstairs and moving components downstairs, but we’ve already made a lot of progress. Barbara wants to have the library/living room cleaned out today, as well as the foyer. We’ll get that done, except that there’ll be a stack of boxes in the foyer awaiting pickup tomorrow by USPS.