Once I was able to get Fedora Core 1 installed and working – and past
the issues that I had with the Dell GXa systems that I’m using – I ran
into the next issue … Up2Date not seeming to work …

I had seen this on previous Fedora Core 1 installations, however had
never looked around the see what the issue might be. I dug in
this time and found the following great article on Fedora Core 1 Up2Date problems.
It seems that the obvious problem was that the Redhat servers were
getting swamped with update requests and downloads. Changing the
configuration for ‘yum’ so that it would use one of the many ‘mirror
servers’ out there fixed the problem in a second.

I’m now experimenting with both Fedora Core 1 and Core 2. I know
that there are other distros out there, but for now I want to track
both Fedora and SuSE … I’m also going to continue my experimentation
with Darwin … I think it’s a dark horse that it going to make some
progress … just not sure how much yet.