A new OS for our AMD machine

Posted on July 25, 2007
Filed Under All, Weblogging, Technology, Gulker labs |

We did get the AMD 64-bit machine tucked in to the cheesy crate as planned, and have decided that Fedora Core 7 - at $9.95 from Linuxcentral.com - is a better OS choice than Vista, which comes in at a minimum of $215.  Vista will probably have more drivers for cams et al., but I’m guessing I can get Fedora to work with everything I care about, and anyway, I’m mainly loooking to connect to Google online resources - Docs, Apps, Calendar, Picassaweb and my new experiment, a Micro-Stock photo site (Gulker Labs redux) built with Lightroom and Google Apps.

The AMD machine currently won’t boot, as far as I can tell, and I’m not quite sure why - I thought we had SuSE or something on it previously. Hopefully the boot disk for the Fedora installer will get us up with a new OS and away we’ll go.  I’m wondering if I can get the machine configured to do the podcasts I’m hoping to add to the micro-stock site along with Google ads…

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2 Responses to “A new OS for our AMD machine”

  1. Anonymous on July 28th, 2007 12:39 pm

    If U can get a Linux derivative to do useful work, then anyone can. It’s definitely not as simple as running InstallShield.

  2. cg on July 28th, 2007 3:13 pm

    I actually published hourly coverage of the GW Bush invasion of Iraq using an open source source TV Tuner package with a screen grabber and some other tools. For his father’s invasion of Kuwait, I was using $100s of K worth of proprietary Sony and Mac gear to get not quite as good a result.

    I’ll be covering the Stanford Summit with Google apps - all LInux, completely free… amazing how quickly and well open source has progressed…

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