linux, freevo, and the home computer

well, i have started my switch over to linux at home. i have installed redhat 8.0, downloaded freevo, and am currently watching fight club while i type this.

this whole thing is still in it's infancy, but it's looking good. i'm running x at 1600x1200, something i've never been able to do in windows, so we'll see how long it lasts. rh8.0 looks amazing though. kind of mac like, while still being linux. the fonts are spectacular. much better than you typically see in windows, approaching what you see on a mac.

it took me all day to get this set up, mostely because i didn't have the hard drives set up to the right mode, and so linux was crashing during the boot sequence right after 'kernel parameters [ok]'. i reinstalled 3 times, tried rh7.3, and had just about given up when i noticed that i couldn't even get into the bios with one of the drives unhooked. so i reset all the hard drives to auto and it worked. yeah!

i have ximian evolution set up, mozilla 1.3 (which allows you to set exceptions to the popup killer. handy if you have a web site that requires it, which i do.), and freevo as i mentioned earlier. i haven't gotten freevo working with my ati tv wonder yet, but i haven't really tried yet. i'm saving that for tomorrow. for now i think i will sit back and watch fight club and gloat.

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