Being CS

Installing Fedora Core 2

Today I finally managed to install Fedora Core 2 Linux on my TravelMate 613 TXV. Make no mistake, the actual installation was extremely easy, and wonderful. After selecting a few options and choosing which packages I wanted to install, I had a running system. Even my Netgear PCMCIA wireless card worked out of the box, and Linux automatically connected to my home wireless base station. Fedora Core 2 (because of changes in the 2.6 kernel) does of course have problems with dual booting Windows 2000/XP, but although there are quick fixes for this problem, I simply chose to wipe my Windows installation, because I did not see myself using it much.
I now have a fully running Linux system that I will be using as my main computer for the next few weeks. This should help be be more comfortable with it when having to use it for CS 199, as well as making it possible for me to run the programs that came with Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager. With those, I can now finally finish my review and send it in later today.
I also just tried logging into the elaines from here, and working on my Distributed Nachos from this machine, and the latency is acceptable, though emacs startup time is terrible. I think I should manage anyway.
Unfortunately, the version of the code that I currently have online is not very uptodate, and I might have to redo a lot of things, but I do not think that this should be too much of a problem. I am also still trying to figure out whether there would be any value in trying to implement my project in Linux or Minix, but neither option seems particularly likely. Minix has very few network drivers, and though rewriting the VM subsystem would probably be quite easy, I have no intention to write an Ethernet driver. Adapting Linux on the other hand, would probably take too long for this first version, which is more about the concepts than the actual implementation.