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Welcome to my new Fedora 12 world

I did it, I now have official switched to Fedora 12 on my laptop, or almost, I have installed it on my original disk, and replaced my cd-rom drive with it... Just for now :-) But I haven't been in my old Vista installation for almost 3 days in a row now, and I'm pretty proud to say, that I really like my new setup. First lad me describe my setup. My T61p is the host for it all and it is now running with a Fedora 12 x86 64bit Linux installation, with the Nvidia drivers on top of it, and in this F12 there is a virtual Windows 7 64bit running with the help from KVM, and my Intel 2,4 GHz VT CPU. I have 4GB memory available. For the Win7 64bit I have assigned 2GB of memory, which seems to be sufficient for Office 2007, Pegirian Service Center and my Office Communicator 2005. The base setup for my work desktop. Also I have enabled with the help from Nvidia and OpenGL the nice 3D desktop for Gnome, which I find so nice to work with, maybe this is because of my sweet eye for 3D graphics. It just feels so smooth, that I often catch my self just switching between the desktops without any reason...

The biggest problems so fare

Really the hardest challenges with my new F12 have been to make Nvidia's drivers work, somehow the FedoraProject had decided to make there own opensource driver for nvidia, and compile it directly in to the kernel, so they could make there playmouth work up front, sadly it don't support 3D graphic yet, and to get by there driver taking control over the video card doing reboot, you have to make a new initial ram disk, after installation of the kmod-nvidia RPM, and then replace your old ramdisk in grub, before it all started to work. I did bust my 1st installation with this challenge, but finally I found the help I needed thanks toThis Link here. Then with the Nvidia driver loaded, and a working X server running Gnome I did meet the next graphical challenge. To make my dual monitor setup work... Somehow Microsoft and now also Nvidia self, think that the external monitor in a Twin view setup should be placed to the left of the laptop, and that the laptops led always have to be the primary screen in a normal set-up, but I just have it all set-up in reverse. Sadly I just can't rewrite the Xorg.conf file to fit my needs, because then I would have a even bigger problem, when I sometimes are away from home, and need to use the laptops led display. Lucky for me there is a fine tool to change screen setup rather easy, but the developer of its interface have to have been high when it was made, because the definition of "left off" and "right off" is totally messed up, I haven't been able to find the logic in the settings I need yet, but I guess that it will come sooner or later, because I have to set it all up every time I boot with a external monitor, and I promise to get back with a short text/blog describing it when I have found the correct way to make it work :-)... I also have to point out VLC the video lan client, I have been using for a very long time with Windows. The problem is not the ability to play video in different codecs, but the VLC's ability to pass sound through to my SPDIF audio out, and lad my digital amplifier take care of the decoding, in Microsoft Vista it all works easy, with a small adjustment, but I haven't found a way to make VLC do this in Linux yet...

The greatest of running F12

Beside from the Nvidia and VLC sound problems, I find almost everything with Fedora 12 as my new desktop so pleasing, that I'm having a hard time highlighting one from the others, but the smooth 3D graphic in Gnome, really eases the day to day work. Also the gnome-terminal makes SSH a howl new experience, so easy just to include the capital X and take all the graphics in to your own X server. Before I installed Fedora I was living in putty almost 8 hours a day. Now I feel like I have gained a howl new level of access :-)... I keep getting surprised by new challenges I normally would use my Virtual Domain Windows workstation to solve, that I now solve from my Linux, e.g. today I had some problems with RDP from my virtual Win 7, then I realised that I could use the Gnome RDP to connect, and it worked right away. Hopefully I will be better to use my main desktop instead of a virtual machine

For all you OpenSource lovers out there just like me, with the burning interest in getting to use Fedora as a workstation, go for it, but just keep your old installation, and you will find that you never need it anymore

10 years with WM-data/Logica

So 10 years have passed. It all seems like it's 20 years ago, but it must of course mean that I have filled in at a speed that has got my brain to feel it would have been over 15 years, but with a buffer of 5 years in the input area of my brain, it can hardly go wrong in the future.

When I take a look at what I have filled in the last 10 years with, it can only confuse, but the main events have to be my lovely wife, my education, my extra education with Red Hat and our future child, it is only the surface and there would indeed be many more sub-categories, if I went into details.

It feels like the past 10 years have been like a journey. In a way you can line it well together with our trip to China in 2006. So many experiences in such a short time, also fills the 5-years buffer fast, and gives an experience of 3 weeks has lasted 5 years. The most amazing thing is that among all the many experiences it contained there have been good as well as minder good experiences, but luckily the minder good experiences always filters in the storage process.

I wonder what the next 10 years will bring... Unfortunately, the future doesn’t filter the bad things away like the past do. There is an old saying there state that, there must be bad times before good times. I guess the next 10 years will bring, baby cry and diaper changing, many joys and concerns and who knows… maybe I will for fill my dream of becoming RHCX.

Finally I thank the great support I have received over the last 10 years from colleagues and friends, family and especially my lovely wife Gitte, there someone has managed to highlight the positive aspect of everyday life...

THANKS ...