Yum

Logged in many times in FC3. Infact now I browse through Firefox, Chat on IRC with Xchat
and on yahoo with GAIM.

Looked up information on yum and could not start yum.
Crazed about trying all other distros mentioned on distrowatch.
tried my old computer also Ubuntu is very slow on 64mb and Celeron 500mhz
I will try Damn small Linux now. Thought of trying Mandrake 10.1 but gave up.
I need something that should make me learn something not a distro which starts up everything for the user.

Ubuntu the top distro

Ubuntu 5.04 Hoary has been released. I cannot download it but have registered for those free cd's.
Ubuntu seems to be in the news. Atleast on Distrowatch it has become the top distro on the basis of number of hits.
I have begun visiting Distrowatch everyday and its weekly newsletter is simply great giving a synopsis of all the distros released.
There are some 400 distros around according to Distrowatch. Wonder how many people are using the least known of them.
When I installed FC3 it did not configure GRUB for Ubuntu. I couldnt run Ubuntu.
Today resolved that issue and now I am triple booting. XP/FC3/Ubuntu 4.10
My old Pc is loaded with Ubuntu and will be a Pc with free OS only. One problem I face here is that i have one keyboard, mouse and Monitor.
Well first I will try networking both these computers and then maybe sharing keyboard ,monitor and mouse.
Atleast I wish to try the major distributions nd understand the different methods of implementing the same Os.(Slackware,Gentoo,knoppix...............)
The success of Ubuntu is mainly due to the non release of a stable version of Debian for the last 2 years.
But still on IRC Debian tops the list and is only next to Gentoo(#1).
Books which I bought this year worth Rs.3500/- are lying as its is w/o being read.
Today atleast in a fit of rage I prepared draft CV with the Oracle Financials implementation part.
I was planning this since last 3 months and was successful in only writing 2 lines. Today I happen to write it in full.
I hope with this I may soon find a job.

FC3 finally great distro

It is the revision/incerement time in our company and as always the increment is always less than what you expect.
Basically the problem I face is that in comparison to friends and relatives(maybe) I work for a dirt cheap CTC. Getting a job is also always difficult in my case.The same happened and I was disappointed with my salary hike a meagre 10-15%.
The salary recd by me is not commensurate with the amount of work done that too selflessly.
I was frustrated last night with the state of my affairs and helplessness I faced.I worked till late and hence slept late.
I got up early today and thought that I could atleast use this time to do what I love most "Running Linux"Yesterday night when I reached home my brother was struggling to resolve a GRUB error.
I new that I could resolve it but was tired and did not think about it at night.
Morning I got the chance and I booted my new FC3 installation.FC3 is superb. I havent seen anything like this in Linux. Even better than Ubuntu.Guess what I did today
1>Ran Kppp and it detected my modem's chipset without any probs
2>Connected to the net and browsed with Firefox.I had little time as i had to reach office and hence visited google and spreadfirefox.com
3>connected to irc with Xchat
4>logged in to GAIM added my list of friends obviously no one was online.

ALL THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME THROUGH LINUX
getting near to becoming truly open source