Installed Fedora Core 9 on Older Laptop
With all the machine consolidation in my office of late, and the replacement of Liza's Windows laptop with a MacBook Air, it seemed fitting to take her old laptop and put Fecora Core 9 on it just so that I'd once again have a linux machine in the office. The last laptop I had with linux on it was an interesting experience getting drivers for, etc. as it was RedHat 5 at the time. I used it to type in my old thesis simulation work and get that going again.
Over time, I upgraded it until the last version I had on there was Fedora Core 3. It hadn't been updated in a long while. I've been working with Fedora Core 5 and 6 at work, and while Fedora Core 10 is due out in a week or so, I decided to just get the Fedora Core 9 ISO and burn it onto a DVD and be done with it.
It's interesting to do this process every now and then as you see what defaults they have for the OS. In this case, the Firewall and SELinux were both on by default, and there were no options I saw in the install to disable them, as there was in the past. I'll have to do a few more installs before I'm sure, but normally, I can see people wanting these on by default, but in my office, and at work, where the network is secured, it's just a hassle to mess with ports, etc.
It's up and running and hooked into the router so I can get to it from outside (on certain ports, of course). It was interesting. Fun even. We'll see what I do with it, but it's nice to have an x86_64 linux box at home - like I have at work.