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Well, Red Hat is giving up on supporting end user Linux, so I figured it was time to switch to another distribution. I figured Fedora would be close enough to be easy to transition to and popular enough that there would be plenty of support, and thus far it looks pretty good. Ximian have a version of Red Carpet for it, and up2date runs just fine as long as you hand-hack the configuration file to point at one of the mirrors instead of the default server. The VPN client for connecting to work compiled just fine, so I can still telecommute, which was my big worry about changing distributions. And FreshRPMs has all the sound-related goodies I need.

I also heard that Mozilla Firebird is finally ready for prime time, so I decided to give it a whirl— thus far it looks pretty good. Now I just need to get X11 forwarding working over the VPN tunnel and persuade GNOME applications to accept my KDE color preferences and I’ll be all set.