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Yesterday I “freed” the 3rd person: I flushed my brother’s Windows 98 from his computer’s harddisk and installed Fedora Linux Core 3. As I am used to FreeBSD on the desktop for about a year now, it’s always nice to have all required software installed as binary packages – no compiling and no waiting for downloads of source tarballs to complete. In contrast to that, it’s been the fine tuning that really took ages. Getting ISDN to work was the biggest problem, followed by such things as missing compat-* library packages, sound not working and the like.
But I have to admit that once it’s running Linux is way more user-friendly than BSD, although Gnome is Gnome and KDE is KDE. I truly hate dual-boot systems. Otherwise I would really like to try running FC3 as my desktop OS, too.