I guess it's Upgrade Week

Monday: Went to Mankato and bought a FireWire card. Also finished downloading Mandrake 10.1 (just as Mandriva 2005 LE is released - yep, things are going as usual).

Tuesday: Installed FireWire card, told Mandrake (9.0) about it, and backed up nearly 40 Gig in about an hour and a quarter. Am really glad I got the FireWire option on the external drive. Burn Mandrake 10.1 install CDs.

Wednesday: Upgraded Mandrake from 9.0 to 10.1. With jmaynard's help, got 10.1 to not hang during boot on a screwed up sound option, got sound working. Found that xine now actually runs (instead of locking everything up hard) and watched an avi at long last.

I still need to get my old xchat settings into the new xchat (the color setup for xchat still sucks - it's very configurable, but not nice about how the configuring is done). I should also install the latest version of NEdit. I think I need to tweak lilo so its default boot option isn't "Enterprise Edition" or such. And then deal with a couple browser issues. I was surprised to not see Firefox but only Mozilla. Firefox seems a reasonable thing to try, and if I don't care for it, well it might time to try the latest version of Opera.

It may sound like I have a bit to do, and that's true. But it's not too big a deal. I have a usable system right now, it's just not tweaked "just so" yet is all. I still plan on looking at other distributions, but it's not an urgent thing as Mandrake 10.1 seems to be doing what I want so far.