On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Vijay Gill <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all (and thanks to Fedora developers) > > With Fedora 11 I can ditch XP (and also Mandriva) which I use for my > desktop. > > I have been using Linux from 1996/1997 (I am not sure, but one of > those years and it was slackware) and soon moved to RedHat Linux. I > also saw the birth of Fedora and all the concerns it raised. I am glad > to see it has come a long way. > > I have a server which has seen upgrades (or fresh installs with > migration of configuration files) from FC1. I will upgrade it to > Fedora 11 soon. > > Till now I never saw Fedora as desktop OS and found Mandriva as better > choice. This time I took a different route and installed Fedora 11 on > my desktop (had a partition available) to compare with Mandriva. I > used rpmfusion and now I can use it just like I use Mandriva and have > virtualbox running a copy of XP for development ( I am .Net developer > by profession). The server will definitely follow the suite soon. > > So far I always wanted to convince my wife to let me have Linux as > main desktop and if she needs XP (for software like MS-Money, she has > been entering data into it since 2003), she can always run virtualbox, > I have tested my development environment to be quite stable by running > Visual Studio 2008 and also 2010 beta and there is no problem. > > So in next few days, I will be migrating my apps and data from XP > (physical partition) to XP under virtualbox. > > Long mail but I wanted to share my joy. > > Vijay > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > -- Dream of the Daily Mail It is the Holy Grail And then the BBC Your life would be complete -Manic Street Preachers, "Royal Correspondent"
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