ak3ldama's Journal: Bye Fedora Linux XOXO

I finally got sick of Fedora Linux, not so much itself but it's horribly maintained Repositories. It is pretty bad when the repo state is so bad you can't upgrade to latest. (This was on an XML Commons package.) I have had this happen in the past, but this time i'm done and am not gonna try to put up with it. I installed Ubuntu which went ok. I had a LVM so the process was slightly not painless. X didn't figure out my 19" widescreen, and there was a few bumps down that road but it is working now. I still have several things left to do but it is late and I better try to get to sleep. The sad part is that I really like fedora linux. I like how it works, and I like the idea behind it ... but it's repo state was and almost always will be utter shite.

Life so far with the new vehicle is going great. Goddamn I love the sound of a V8. I read that the hypertech chip gives the Ford 5.4 (modular) V8 30 horsepower and 50 foot pounds of torque. I don't plan on doing this until the warranty runs out ... oh yea, and until I have the money to rebuild a tranny if (or more-so when) this would cause a big ouch. My little sister liked driving the pickup more than I do. She has one year of Uni left so she shouldn't have to wait long for a nicer ride. Hopefully this coming weekend I can head out and do some prairie dog hunting or something.

Oh yea, in case anyone missed it what is with HR 3155? WTF!!! From Section 5:

`(A) ATTEMPT- Any person who attempts to commit an offense under paragraph (1) shall be subject to the same penalties as those prescribed for the offense, the commission of which was the object of the attempt.

Wow this journal entry sounds familiar :-)

[nizo]

On the upside my machine seems way snappier than it did under FC4 (probably at least in part due to less junk running and the updates to gnome). I will miss Fedora too, but I do admit that I like it when things just work (which so far, they just do under ubuntu).

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[Shadow Wrought]

So the punishment of the attempt is the same as if you succeed? Wonder if they'll apply that to suicide...

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[ak3ldama]

Haha, nope, just IP infringement. This was covered recently on /. [slashdot.org] btw. Oh yea ... in case anyone is interested Mono and Silverlight on linux appears to be coming along nicely. [tirania.org]

Has anyone else noticed how many people are running linux on laptops these days? I suppose it is going to happen since so much of the user market in general is using laptops now. I prefer to have a tower I can maintain myself, with fast and easily upgradeable storage for running a linux box; that's why I haven't switched. Also l

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[Shadow Wrought]

I have both an ancient tower and an ancient laptop running Damn Small Linux. Since both were free I can't complain, but they are certainly slow;-) So if you bring in a videocamera to a theatre without film, you're as guilty as if you had filmed it? That's just silly. I wonder if it will survive the inevitable judicial test.