Anyone remember this whole Fedora thing? It used to rock, because it was the leading edge stuff from RedHat. Now it just makes my eyes bleed. I get an old socket 478 P4 chip and grab a motherboard that has PCI express and DDR 2. Awesome.
Then I install Fedora 9 from optical media... the screen goes all wonky, and locks up.
Best I can figure, from rolling back to Fedora 8, and then searching with Google, is that the version of Xorg in Fedora 9, and almost all recent distros, has a crappy VESA driver that doesn't work on unichrome video chipsets Bleh. At least Fedora 8 worked...
So, now what do I do. I can use "linux vesa" to get Fedora 9 installed, but then X fails on restart. I can get to runlevel 3, but I tried changing "vesa" to "openchrome" and that didn't work. I read something about "unichrome" but honestly, I'm too angry that I wasted my time with this at all. I might as well go back to my Mac... sigh.
The thing is, and I really should blog about this later, I now *love* Evolution for mail. Why? because I can use LDAP with my TuffMail account. Read and Write. Address completion, web mail addressbook is the same as my desktop client, save addresses to my address book on my desktop client... blah bah mwah ahahah.
So, I'm really excited about using Linux again. Then this... Sigh. Is it really worth all this, just to stay away from being trapped by Apple?
I'm going back to sleep.
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Hehe...I've been going back and forth with linux for a while...I had been running my website and other servers on slackware, but a while back I went to cheap linux hosting on godaddy.
I'm always hitting up small LiveCDs, as I have a decent amount of older hardware to play with. My current favorite is a SliTaz LiveCD, currently the smallest distro you can find at just under 30MB. Granted, it doesn't auto-detect my wireless on my IBM T23, but everything else works...and its just so damn small!!!
Yeah, it's an on and off thing for me too. I like the idea of not paying for my OS, and Linux is great for server stuff, but again you can pay for some cheap hosting and not be hassled with it.
On the desktop... maybe when the revolution comes, I'll be ready. However, I just don't seem to have the time I used to anymore. I'll probably end up sticking it out with my Mac and eventually just cancel all this futzing around with PCs and Linux and games.
I won't complain about Macs...love 'em to death, minus the cost...that's why I only have a Powermac G4 and a old Pismo G3 laptop. I've had Ubuntu on the laptop a couple times, but kept comping back to OSX.
My desktop...well, its ancient...dual 500Mhz, but its good for checking email, web browsing and skype/ventrillo when I am playing WoW.
If you stop futzing around, what fun is that? :)
"because I can use LDAP with my TuffMail account. Read and Write"
??? How did u get it to write?
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