Eating dog food (or at least mixing it in with the regular stuff)

Welcome to the wonderful world of Fedora. This post is being created on my new office laptop which I have successfully turned into a dual-boot (WindowsXP & Fedora Core 3 Linux) machine. It's been an interesting and mostly painless experience. The only dificulty I had was yesterday when trying to get Koppernix to run so I could resize the Windows partition without reinstalling the OS. The problem arose when I got Koppernix to run but had no mouse control. The pointer was on the screen but it refused to move. It seems that this is a somewhat common problem but it took me two hours to find the solution (a certain boot command needed to be issued). Once I solved that problem, I repartitioned the hard drive, installed Fedora and went home. This morning I ran all of the Fedora updates (image) installed all the Windows software and have cleaned out my old desktop computer. I'm running just the laptop. Anything I've not successfully trasnferred off the desktop is considered lost at this point.

As for the "dog food" reference: "eating dog food" in the computer world is the point at which you make the switch to a new program/OS regardless if you, or the computer, are ready for it. Had I made the laptop Linux only (no Windows to fall back on) then I would truely be eating dog food. (I've kept windows since I still have no access to out windows network, i.e. files and printers, from the Linus side of things. Also, I still teach Windows-based programs in my classes so I can't give it up completely.)