Fedora 11: Finally I can ditch XP

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Vijay Gill <vijay.s.gill at gmail.com> 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
>
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