Well the install of Fedora is complete and now we’re ironing out the issues. There would be no issues of course, if I weren’t wanting to run a web, mail or name server, but I am, and these require configuring. A configurer of these I’m not, so poor old Warren spent his weekend telnetted into my linux box tweaking this and installing that. At least my email is now up, but that’s only worthwhile if my name server were up, and it’s not yet! More work still to be done there.

Although I would like to say I am a command-line girl (or certainly would like to be a command line girl), I’ve been using the graphical interface and I must say, so far, I think it’s pretty great!

The email client is great, Firefox is standard for web-browsing, and it even has a windows-update-like feature called yum, which checks for package updates automatically and installs them behind the scenes. It also has an “add/remove software” feature which makes downloading and installing stuff easier than windows. Can you believe that! (Although you need to know what you’re installing of course).

It’s such a relief to have a nice, new, shiny installation of Linux running on a decent computer with decent hard-drive space let me tell you.

Now, another task I wanted to do before returning to work is install Vista on my Windows box. After some researching and listening to people say “Are you f@cking crazy? You want to install that DRM-ridden piece of sh@t!”, I’ve decided not to YET. I’m just going to format and reinstall XP for now. I like to reformat at least once per year as sort of a spring-clean. At least I’ll know that all my software and hardware will work with XP. I’ll let the dust settle on Vista (and let a few million other people struggle the bugs out of it) before I do.

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