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No, it's not hard to install if you have a good guide and use a package manager to do most of the setup.
It's hard to say how long it took, because I did everything in little bits. But I would estimate about 8 hours starting with the hardware all assembled. That would include getting and installing Fedora Core (or whatever distribution). It will vary quite a bit depending on the speed of your internet connection and hardware.
You can probably do it in 45 minutes with the KnopMyth distribution since it does everything for you.
If you have trickier hardware, it could take a lot longer figuring out drivers and stuff.
I'll file that away as a project for a rainy day.
Thanks!
Here's the Fedora guide I used:
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It's a really good guide.
Gud, the main thing that's always kept me from doing a Myth box is that it lacked the neato TiVo trick of learning what I like and grabbing recommended stuff for me - is that still the case?
I'm pretty sure it doesn't do that.
That was what I thought, but if it did, it might get me off my duff to do some work on the perfectly myth-capable machine I already have... thanks for the info.
Office 2007 screenshots: [link]
They actually made it pretty....
I don't need pretty. I need don't-frell-up-the-good-features-you-already-had-by- adding-a-bunch-o'-useless-crap.
I don't need pretty, although I sure do like it.
But pretty looks more OSXish, and that makes me laugh. I like OS X and all that, but my Windows boxes do not use the XP skins--they use the 2000 one.
my Windows boxes do not use the XP skins--they use the 2000 one.
Mine, too. I dislike both the XP and OS X boxes.
