Category — Ma' PC

As previously mentioned on 17th, I went ahead and successfully installed Fedora 9 (Fedora release 9 Sulphur - as it is known as) on my machine. I still have my Windows XP on my C: partition (still vary of Linux!). May be I will fiddle with linux for some time and then decide whether to completely washout Windows. Any suggestions to aid my Linux experience will be appreciated.

The installation process was good. After selecting the desktop system as my system configuration, the packages started installing. 933 packages!!! I was like - OMG! those many? And I thought, only Windows Vista was a bloaty OS!

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After much fiddling and thinking, I have come to a ground breaking decision (for me, that is!!!).

I have been breaking my head over my system running Windows XP from quite sometime now. Even after setting up so much protection using the Big3 : Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware and Internet Security, my PC succumbed to a bunch of viruses and a dozen trojans and it finally crashed!

Then followed the famous procedure >> Format HDD >> Reinstall OS >> Update OS (Oh! SP3 is released) >> Find (or rather ‘Hunt’ would be the right term for a 7 year old machine like mine!) and Install Drivers >> Install the Big3 >> Update the Big3>> Restore Backups. Phew!!!

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