an empty place v3.5

Well, let's see, severely interrupted sleep Tuesday night, no sleep Wednesday night, severely interrupted sleep Thursday night, in bed by 3a Friday night/Saturday morning. My head is killing me. I should be working but I'm burning out, I need to take a break but I can't seem to do it. Did I mention my head hurts? Right behind my right eye all the way back to my neck. Last night my chest hurt really bad, like I'd been stabbed the pain went through my chest to my back. The was almost unbearable with each breath I took but it went away.

I'm starting up a new VPC on my Mac to install a Linux distro on by I just can't decide which to use. My first exposure to Linux was with Slackware version 3.2. I remember spending several days downloading disk images, formatting floppy disks, and raw writing the images to them. I recall the frustration of having a third of the disks go bad. At the time I was the shipping department manager at an engineering company (where I was later promoted to The Lab and my professional software development career was born) and because I was good at my job I had plenty of time to kill. Those were the days, there were only a few "major" distributions of Linux and was fairly simple to get on board with them. Now, the list goes on with new ones poping up everyday and old ones dying off along side them. I don't really get why there are so many distros, I know why, but I still don't get it. They are all basically the same; the same packages on the same filesystems, running the same servers, and the same window managers.

I really dig Linux From Scratch and even built a minimal distro once, but I don't have the time to do it again though I wish I could. So, which distro do I want to play with? After visiting a number of the sites I'd frequented in the past (LinuxHQ, Linux4Newbies, Linux Gazette, etc...) and discovering that some are no more, I think I've decided to go with the latest Fedora Core distro. Firing up the FTP client I've started the downloads and within the next few days start the install...