NewsForge: My Desktop OS: Fedora Core 3
Jan 25, 2006, 04:00 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Nader Aeinehchi)
"Half a year ago, I was in a point in my professional life where
I wanted to start over with a completely different developer
environment. My Windows XP-based PC simply worked too slowly.
Antivirus software, disk fragmentation, network settings, and an
ever-growing registry were eating up the performance. As a Java
developer, I had about a million small files installed on my
computer, and the antivirus software had a hard time. I decided to
install Linux on my brand new ThinkPad T43P laptop. Having been a
Red Hat fan for many years, the obvious free alternative was
Fedora, so I installed Fedora Core 3. Today, with Linux, I have
more control over my development environment than I did with
Microsoft Windows..."
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