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March 28, 2004

The Weekend Time Warp

What is it about weekends that make them go so damn quick? It was just Friday, for crying out loud, and here it is Sunday night at 9pm.

Bleh

Posted by ed at 08:56 PM | Comments (0)

Mandrake A Stay-Stay

Okay, so I lied. Mandrake is still here.

I tried to install Fedora Core 2 Test 1 last night, but it was a huge failure. I couldn't get the damn installer to boot properly. Since I was having so many issues with just getting the installer to boot, I decided that it would probably be a better idea to stay away from Fedora until it's finally released. Hopefully they fixed that fucking annoying ATI card issue.

So, I re-installed Mandrake 10. This time, however, I went and did some things a bit differently. Instead of installing everything and the kitchen sink, I decided to go the minimal way and just get Gnome and a few other items installed and running. Since the install was completed, I installed XFce as a WM backup in case if Gnome decides to crap out again. Here's a screenshot of XFce up and running. It's a very nice, but minimal, GUI for Linux. It still needs a few things here and there, but it's lightning fast to boot and that's the developers main goal.

XFce running RPMdrake, an RPM update tool.

So, anyhow, I'm still on Mandrake. I like the 2.6.x kernel way to much to even really think about going back to an older distribution with the slower 2.4.x kernel. I debated putting Fedora Core 1 and even Red Hat 9 back on the machine to get me back up and running, but the more that I thought about it ... the more that I realized that I'm ready to move forward and not backwards.

Posted by ed at 03:35 PM | Comments (0)