I got sick of my aging Fedora Core 5 laptop system. I like RedHat and I liked Fedora, but Fedora had become overly bloated and no longer was supporting my hardware that well. For instance, since Core 2 my DVD stopped working properly and would lock up.
On the other hand, I've been extremely impressed with my (K)Ubuntu experience and decided to use it for both of my systems. I started off with Ubuntu 7.04 because of the problems when I initially installed 7.10. I think that I had downloaded it too early and encountered a more buggy version. Now though, I think they managed to stabilize it so I did a network type of upgrade. And it went smooth! I had a minor hiccup with Adept (Kubuntu's upgrade manager), so I switched to Gnome to handle this part. No problem there. Took about an hour to download roughly ~1100 packages and install them. Now, I have a shiny new system with all the latest packages that are not in the unstable branch.
Next plans of action are to get LDAP working, NFS, maybe even wireless. Wireless would be nice so that I can just use my main system as a file store while I lazily recline on my couch and program. Having mobile (or immobile computing if you consider being a couch potato) would be cool, even in a spot as tiny as my own.
Anyway, this time around things seem better. I'm still a little hesitant about upgrading my main system, at least until I can get my information properly backed up on a periodic basis to my external drive.
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