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A friend of friend asked me if I could
look at their 3 month old PC that wouldn’t boot. They said it was
Windows but I didn’t think to get specific. It turned out that it
was Vista. “Was” Vista is a good way to put it because it was
majorly screwed. They did have recovery CDs but, of course, they
did not have a back ups of their precious data which was mostly
digital pictures. After dropping Knoppix v4.02 into the drive I was
able to mount and copy off all their data to a network drive. Then I
did the recovery for them. This was my first look at Vista up close.
Man! Vista is going to make a ton of Linux converts! First of all I
didn’t see any advantage in using Vista over XP SP2 (with all the
patches of course). Secondly neither Windows OS can hold a candle to
Linux. And the eye candy isn’t even that great, and even if you go
in for that sort of thing there isn’t anything there that Linux
didn’t already have 2 years ago.
I hear this phrase batted around a lot;
“Is Linux ready for the desktop?”. You better believe it is!
Its been ready! And thanks to Linux another Windows user got their
machine back, I’m sure I’ll see it again some day. Thanks Linux!

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I followed the steps here and everything went ok for the most part.  To my surprise it took about 16 hours to upgrade from FC6 to F7, that may be just all the stuff on my PC, but still…16 hours…  I am having trouble with Firefox and Seamonkey crashing but Opera is running so I will be heading up to the forums to look around.  F7 is very impressive looking.  Props to the Fedora team!

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