[Gloucs] System Resurrected

[Dave Addison]

My dead Fujitsu hard disk has now been replaced with a shiny new Western 
Digital with a three year warranty. This now has Suse 9.0 on it and very 
nice it is too.

I also managed to recover the old RedHat installation by copying a /usr 
partition off another RedHat machine. It got it into a bootable state 
but doing "rpm -Va" generated a huge number of missing file messages. 
It's now been upgraded to Fedora core 1, just to see if it worked 
really. This is another really nice system. There's not much to choose 
between Fedora and Suse really (excepts Suse uses Postfix and I've got 8 
years invested in learning sendmail).

In both systems, the default desktops work well and look really good.

The only glitch with Fedora was an apparent inability for the nv module 
shipped with XFree86  to drive the DVI output from the graphics card. 
Text mode worked fine but as soon as X started, I had to change to the 
analogue output.
-- 
Dave Addison
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