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My life with Linux: Day 2 – The daily ups and downs of switching to open source

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 20, 2009

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“Day 2: My life with Linux

“Fedora hates me. I know this because it refuses to do a single
thing I tell it. It’s taken me all morning to get the darn thing
installed, as it kept crashing at the install screen on my work
machine.

“With my temper in shreds, I end up using my laptop to install
the OS on an external hard disk, which works brilliantly until I
try to start it for the first time, at which point it gleefully
crashes again.

“A quick restart and everything seems to be working, except it
won’t output to my external monitor. Given that my laptop has a
13in screen, this is a problem, but one dwarfed by the refusal of
the Evolution email client to connect to my company’s Exchange
Server, despite all the literature boasting quite heartily the
opposite.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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