I have to say, I'm impressed. Being a geek at heart I've tried many times to install Linux on (at least) one of my home machines - usually with limited success. I've always stuck with SuSE through various incarnations from 6.x upwards but always decided that, while it was pretty good, it didn't do exactly what I needed, exactly how I wanted it.
Recently, I came across a requirement to have a working Fedora Core 3 box in my home office for testing (with MySQL, PHP & Apache on it) and have to say that never having been too impressed with Red Hat before I was a little underwhelmed at the thought of trying to bung it on my helpless server. Anyways, to cut a long story short, I now have a fully-functioning FC3 server with all the bits on and a "replacement desktop candidate" running under a demo version of VMWare and everything is working really well - way better then my attempts to install SuSE 9.2 in fact.
So, I reckon a month or two of testing and some sample installs here and there and I may even go the whole hog and try to replace my existing Win XP Pro setup with Linux full-time. Sadly, my laptop will have to stay Windows whatever happens due to custom hardware that's built into it, but it would be really nice to able to shake off the shackles of bloody Microsoft and save untold hundreds of pounds in forced upgrades to LongHorn (ooer missus sounds a bit rude) or whatever other pointless tech M$ will try to fob us off with next.
Here endeth the lesson for today.
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