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Trever Fischer is a junior at The University of Akron with a strong enthusiasm towards coding, writing, photography, and above all: oranges. This is his site. Specifically, this is his "About" box. He is also a full-time hacker who tinkers with Amarok, Plasma, various KDE bits, and PHP. [FSF Associate Member]

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24
September
08

Happy Birthday, Fedora!

Today marks the fedora project’s 5th year of existence! Hooray!

I myself started using Fedora back when it was “Fedora Core”, just after FC3 came out. I had converted my windows 98 “server” machine (back then called Earth) to the current beast that is Jupiter. The hardware has remained the same, but the software has improved. Why, I remember the days before D-Bus and Avahi. Rough times, those were.

At first, I used Jupiter to store a few samba shares for web development and download storage. Then I decided to install Fedora on my desktop computer, Pluto. I set it up to be dual boot with XP and Fedora 3, and things Just Worked.

Go forward a few years, and now I’ve got centralized LDAP user management, a distributed backup system, home directories over NFS, two MythTV servers, 3 laptops with Fedora 9, and a really slick KDE4 desktop. Life’s good.

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