Migration

I have migrated to linux away from windows OS. Thru the years i have been, running linux since the early days way back 1996. At the time Mandriva and Red Hat was the distro of choice for me. I remember downloading using a 56kbps dial up modem. Last 2005 I was running OpenSuSE, and barely tried Fedora. However, i have not migrated until recently. I am running Ubuntu right now, started it under 8.10, also tested kubuntu. About a few months ago. I am satisfied with it, with the help of the community and a nearby server for the repositories. Its quite comparable to having a backup of your applications and softwares on a separate drive. I don't usually post to message boards to ask for help. For the reasons, there are lots of people having the same problem as me and have been discussed and Solved. Why would I waste time asking other people when you can find the answers yourself.

I came across last night regarding the benchmark of Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 9.10 into several tests, including a NPB, NASA Parallel Benchmark(NASA Advanced Supercomputing) between the two distros. Check it here. I am quite impressed with Fedora.

So I have downloaded a copy of the Live CD from Distrowatch for Fedora and tried it. I will change my main system to Fedora and review it further for a few more months.

What I miss is the Login Window Preferences (gdmsetup, gdm themes) that vanishes due to the accomodation of the boot-time speed Ubuntu is best heard of. They replaced it with xsplash.

I prefer to customize my login, so I was finding another distro that have it still in the package. Fedora 12 has also removed it on their latest distro.

But still, I am looking forward to switch to Fedora, It was Fedora 4 when i first used it.

For now, I am waiting to purchase a USB enclosure for my 160GB Hard Drive to backup my things. To fully migrate to open-source.

I still have a backup partition in my system that is running NTFS. I am planning to completely go for 100% EXT4 partition. Rendering my System to 100% linux from 90% linux.

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