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A buddy of mine recently sent me this link and thought it was the coolest thing! I’m going to have to try and create one of these for myself! :-)

Link: Click Here

Last night I downloaded the entire 3.1gb FC5 Install ISO and burned it this evening. At first it scared me a little, the first DVD burn failed, the second did too! The third was the charm, I lowered the burn speed 2x to 6x and it completed just fine.

The install, at least for me, was enormously painless. Some have complained of nVidia issues, but it detected my 6200OC just fine as well as the exact model of my 17″ LCD.

I picked almost all the packages on the DVD and then left it to install, it was easily done before 24 (what a great show!) was over. So I rebooted and everything was perfect. I have had absolutely no problems, no bugs, no glitches, no nothing. So far at least. I’ll keep testing and post back later this week if I find anything.

My basic machine specs are as follows.

The guts: eMachine D6405
AMD Athlon x64 3000+
1gb DDR-2700
TSSTCorp CD-RW DVD+-RW
Crappy spare 40gb WD PATA drive.
nVidia 6200OC 256mb (I think)

So far so good… Later this week I’m going to download the 64 bit version and install it on a different drive on my Dell/Mac mentioned in a previous post. It’s a Dell SC-430 Intel 2.8ghz 64bit Dualcore Server so it should be nice and speedy as long as it has been utilized to it fullest potential.

Overall, I would have to say Fedora Core 5 has been the simplest and quickest to install considering the size of it. The smoothest, nicest looking GNOME build I’ve seen in a while and totally painless after logging in. Everything is layed out well and easy to find in the menus.

Just got done using PUP to update my machine, again almost completely dummy proof… a couple clicks and 100+ software packages are updated with no further input except “click to finish”.

Out of 10, I think I give this Linux a 9/10…

Let’s see how it holds up

I’ll try and post another message around the weekend with any updates.

Doesn’t look like a Mac does it? But I think it’s probably perfoming better than a real Mac. The Mac Minis are only 1.66ghz Dualcore, the laptops and Desktop are only 2.16ghz Dualcore Intels…

My new Dell/Mac is 2.8 ghz… So it’s most likely performing better than anything Mac is currently selling.

How is this you may ask? How am I running MacOSX on a Dell?

I’m running MacOSX x86. Basically the same version that Apple is using on their Dualcore Macs. It has been modified a little to allow it to run on hardware other than apples, and it works GREAT!

My machine is a Dell SC-430 server, 2.8ghz Dualcore, 1gb RAM, 2×160gb SATA HDDs. The video card is a piece of crap 16mb integrated video, but it still performs EXCELLENTLY! There is absolutely no lagginess while running normal apps. Even the genie effect when minimizing things is very smooth, even at 1280×1024@32bit.

Being a server, there is no soundcard, but using a Logitech uSB headset, I can still get audio, MacOSX supports it just fine.

The integrated Network card wasn’t recognized, so I grabbed a stack of PCI NIC cards and went through them one by one until it found one, ended up working with an old Kingston 10/100 KNE100TX or something.

Being a Dualcore, the Rosetta translator works great, allowing me to run all the old PPC applications although a bit slower than the new UniBin apps.

From the time I pushed the POWER button on the front till the time it was completely booted was only 20 seconds! It is enormously fast!