FC4

I had been running FC2 as my desktop OS for about a month. Then, yesterday, X crashed and I was unable to get an X session going again. So, I copied all my files onto another machine then proceeded with a clean install of another OS. At first, I thought was the video card but it wasn't as I was able to install FreeBSD 4.11 and get KDE running with no problems. But, I really wanted to try FC4 so the BSD install lasted as long as it took me to download the ISO's and burn them. Plus, I already have FreeBSD running on another machine.

Fedora Core 4 installed without a hitch and even X worked fine from the start. I don't know why FC2/X took a dump on me but it was no big deal as I didn't lose anything and I was looking for a motive to install FC4.

I got most of the secondary stuff installed and configured like the Flashplayer and Java plugins for Firefox. I also installed XMMS with MP3 support as that does not come with Fedora. I even got MPlayer with all the codecs going too. I still need to get the MPlayer plugin for Firefox installed but everything else is pretty much set up how I like it. I also like the new theme - Clearlooks - more than the old Bluecurve theme.