Dang.

Zapped Fedora and went to Feisty Fawn.

11:53 pm

Installed Fedora Core 6, played around with a pair of promising new technologies, Xgl (eye candy) and Xen (virtualization).

I’m still partial to apt, but it’s a pretty slick package.

1:13 am

Ganked a machine, finally did one of those projects I’ve been putting off, building a raid-5 setup on Linux. Performance locally capped out via bonnie around 49MB/sec. Iozone over the network via afp managed to hit 46MB/sec. In other words, sweet. There’s rumors of ZFS in Leopard, but if that doesn’t happen I’ve got another way to solve my storage needs.

1:39 am

To anyone attempting to use an ADC connected Apple Studio Display under Linux and having difficulties with xinit failing to provide the monitor with power, add “HorizSync 78-82″ and “VertRefresh 60-180″ to the “Monitor” section of xorg.conf.

You really don’t want to know how long that particular piece of wisdom took to discover.

5:01 pm