Day: January 4, 2004

As I already said, WordPress 1.0 is finally here. I got it up and running this morning and everything looks cool, so I’m now looking forward to exploring all of its new little nooks and crannies. Multi-category posts would be my new feature of choice, but I’m also looking forward to the comment moderation (no offense to any of you, but spammers are lurking somewhere out there 😉 ). Of course my first real work will be to redesign the site (almost from the ground up) to get away from this default look.

OK, so I’m not really in black (well, my desktop case is), but I am back. I finally re-installed my system and just got the website back up and running. Sticking with the whole Red Hat theme I decided to switch to the Fedora project. With the release of Core 1 the installation was a rather easy transition from Red Hat Linux 9, so I’ve got no real complaints outside of the difficulties I had getting MySQL to work. There’s a definite feel of continuity here and that’s made transfering configs rather easy.

I didn’t really get to try out any new flavors as I planned, but I doubt it would have been much of a contest. SuSE charges money for their distro ISOs, so that was really only an option for work. As much as I wanted to try Gentoo, all of my attempted installations failed. I’d still like to give it another try but I probably won’t be switching thebox again anytime soon. And then there was Debian. No offense (since I know how popular their distro has becaome), but I just couldn’t make it past the setup. It was horrendous to say the least. They are light-years behind in this area, and that simply killed it for me. So it’s Fedora all the way (for now).

Next (tonight or tomorrow morning) I’ll be blissfully upgrading to the long-awaited release of WordPress 1.0. Oh it’s an exciting time for me indeed 🙂 .