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Last night my computer’s hard disk crashed. Thankfully it was under guarantee period so I gave it for repairing. Computer’s hardware was lying worthless in my desk, and I got a rare chance of experimenting. So I decided to install linux in a pen drive, although I could do that even if HDD was present, but who has time for that ? huh !

I had a bunch of linux distros with me, thanks to to linux for you magazine. I took out ubuntu’s DVD (10.04) which is my favorite Linux flavor and started installing it in my 4Gb pendrive. Unfortunately I could not succeed due to unknown reason.
I tried Mandriva Spring 2010 next, but its partition manager (I suppose GParted) crashed prior to installation. My bad luck.

Although I had no expectation from Fedora (this is personal, don’t draw any conclusion), It worked. Installation process was exactly same as installing on a hard disk, the only difference was the freaking slow progress rate, reason being slow transfer rate of pen-drive.  At least it was done successfully, that was all I needed to be “happy”.

For the first time in my life I logged into a fedora system. It looked similar to ubuntu (this is what happens when you keep using one destro, being afraid of the time you would waste making yourself comfortable with other). Then I realized, if looks are the only thing you care about in Linux then choose between Gnome and KDE not among deferent linux flavors. So I started diving deep into finding at least one difference that matters a lot and that does not include ubuntu has ubuntu software center and fedora does not.

Well the search is ON, I might find something when I use my computer again, hopefully before repaired hard disk arrives. Till then I am using my Laptop and babuji is using that freaking slow PC. He he he

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