It's been quite long since i'm using fedora 8 , Basically Redhat Enterprize Linux based linux (RHEL as they say). Since march 2008 to march 2011. Hmm 3 years & no new ventures?? huh. So was planning to play with some of the latest linux flavours(I still use british english so dont mind the u in the flavour) the laughlin (Fedora 14 Code name) saw a few screenshots, but wasnt sure of installing it, cause fedora 8 never gave me any pain in last 3 years. Pains of virus removal, pains of genuine software crap, pains of upgrading browser that crashes every now n then, pains of installing mobile browser software, pains of installing hell lot of video codecs, n the biggest pain of seeing holes in your pocket to understand that this software does not support your version of doors & ventilations. Recently i was planning to install google video tool (real thorn in flesh to install n i finally gave up as it was not worth the time & effort, cause skype 2.0 does it in a lot lot better way :) ) which said the STL library i was using with fedora 8 is outdated. So i though so it be google video is an entertainment software n need not be installed at all.
Then came firefox 4 RC (release candidate as they call it) & i downloaded the sourecode n compiled n maked (make is a command to generate a make file) it installed it n phew it crashed saying the same thing the STL lib is outdated.
Tears rolled down my chicks, no no no not from eyes, they were from my forehead i forgot to put on the ceiling fan.
So wat next?
Downloaded laughlin live. Burnt it to disc, & there I was with the live CD of laughlin.
Booted the machine from disc got a good feel of F14.
Then decided to install it on the hdd.
Again was very very bery skeptical to install directly on the hdd so got it installed on the sun virtual box. Which is sun's implementation of Virtual Machine player.
Boy! it was cool, it took only 2.1 GB of hdd n 512 mb ram.
So was I able to connect to the internet seamlessly.
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