Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Hmm, the guy over at Geek Rants bought up all the remaining shares in my blog.
I wonder if this has any significance, other than boosting my blog share price. I wonder what I should do now…issue more shares? Have I been taken over? Oh what to do, what to do…
Spent some time this morning poking around inside the Fedora box I built on Friday. Overall, I’d say it’s pretty similar to RedHat 9. Some of the software is newer (GCC 3.3.2, Perl 5.8.1 were the first ones I found). Apache and MySQL were a version behind, but since those just came out a couple of weeks ago, not unexpected.
Haven’t really pushed it too hard yet, although since it’s on an old 400 MHz PII, I can only push it so hard. It runs pretty well on the old box I stuffed it into. Web pages were served up pretty quickly. OpenOffice apps took a while to load, but ran fine. Seems stable enough. Now to read through some of the Fedora mailing list archives to see what interesting things people are discussing.
Saw Matrix:Revolutions this afternoon. Reviews were lukewarm, and didn’t seem to be all that well received from what I’ve read of peoples’ comments on various boards, but I thought it was an excellent movie. I thought it was more in line with the first movie than Reloaded was. Plenty of action, some fabulous fight scenes, and very thought provoking. The ending reminded me of Star Trek: TMP. If you’ve got some time to kill, I think Philosophy and The Matrix has some interesting articles to read.
Can’t wait to see it at the IMAX now.
Have a new Fedora box to play with. The only machine I could scrounge up to install it on was an old Dell Optiplex GX1, 400 MHz Pentium II with 128 MB and 4 GB hard drive. Not the fastest machine in the world, and probably a little underpowered, but it was the best one I could lay my hands on. Should be enough for me to see how it behaves.
Managed to shoehorn a fairly complete installation, although it only leaves me with about 600 MB of disk space to play in. I’ll have to see about scavenging another hard drive to put into this box.
Installation was pretty simple, and similar to installing Redhat Linux 9. Boot off the CD, select the packages you want and let it go. Installation on this box took about 2 hours to install about 3 GB of stuff. Like I said, not the fastest machine around.
Too late to play with for today, so the fun will have to wait until Monday.
With Redhat’s recent decision to end support for Red Hat Linux in favour of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, I’ve decided to give the new Red Hat sponsored Fedora Project a try.
A few people around here have installed it already, and gave it favourable reviews. I’ve found a machine to install it on (might need to cannibalize a few other machines to get enough HD space and RAM), and am in the middle of downloading the 3 ISOs to burn onto CD. Now all I need is to find a place to put the computer I’m going to install on.
This should be an interesting adventure.