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i think this is my first bloggie... i like the word bloggie better than blog. i'm currently listening to Die Krupps - To The Hilt (LP) version off of iTunes radio :). The station is on www.Spiderpower.co.uk it's aresome! so i'm like constantly staring at the clock b/c i have to go to work in about 2 hours. i can't wait until i get my computers! i had to ship one to a friend (coius) so i could have the screen replaced, and then i'm sending him money for his totally upgraded Pismo! i'm so excited!

This is on a Compaq DeskPro 4000 with >128MB RAM.

First I had a successful Red Hat 7.3 installation on this machine. Except for the fact that I hadn't done the installation that included gcc, so nothing new could be compiled.

I tried doing an upgrade, having chosen the graphical install. But it hung somewhere during the install. So I rebooted and erased the partitions. Then I did the text-only install, and it finished fine.

Successful install! It boots up and running an XWindows Server. I found out the Window Manager it runs is called CDE.

Anyway the only thing I forgot to do is make sure the darn old PC had an Ethernet card in it before the install. Now I will have to put one in and figure out how to configure it.

I found a review on Unixreview.com which explains how to switch to KDE.