I just removed the wretched apache from my nice new fedora system. 
yum install nginx
Then a super simple configuration later, and I had my nice new webserver up and running.

It took longer to try and get apache's settings right than it did to remove it and install nginx, make a couple config changes and start it up.

I learned a couple of neat tricks in the process, First,
find / -name nginx
will find all files or folders named nginx on my system and it starts searching from the / directory.
Second, to start nginx
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nginx start
and to stop:/etc/rc.d/init.d/nginx stop
and to restart/etc/rc.d/init.d/nginx restart
On my system Fedora 16, nginx is living at /etc/nginxWhich is different than where the documentation says it should be, at /usr/bin/nginxAls, I find it annoying that it delegates PHP and CGI scripts to apache. I guess it makes sense, they say that nginx is designed to be a fileserver. Do I really have to use apache?

Today is the day that I have finally made the switch to linux.

I have been wanting to get away from windows for a long while now but I didn't have the commitment to change from what had become home. I must say that finding replacement programs for some of my most beloved friends, Macromedia Fireworks and Mathematica, just to name a few.

So I chose to dual boot my system, which actually turned out to be easier than I tried to make it. 

On the subject of partitions:
One can use the nice partition manager that comes with the Fedora 16 live cd to resize other partitions. When a NTFS partition containing Windows is resized, Windows will refuse to boot before a chkdsk has run. 

On the subject of Boot Loaders:
One can choose to put the linux grub in place of the windows boot loader, or just use the windows boot loader. I couldn't figure out how to add the option to boot windows to grub, so I went with using the windows one. I then preceded to use easybcd to add an entry for my new fedora installation (from windows).

On the subject of Display Brightness:
For some reason my fn+f2 and fn+f3 keys weren't able to change the brightness of my display (I am on a laptop). After much searching, I was sure that there wasn't a good solution. Which was really disappointing, so I decided to go onto the #fedora channel on freenode and see if any living beings would be able to help. Luckily for me, I learned that a bug in bash, a simple yum downgrade bash solved my problem.

Overall I am very impressed with how far linux GUI's have come in the past 3 years. I think that Gnome 3.0 is something even my computer illiterate parents could get to love.