Now that I'm back on PCLinuxOS, I feel a lot more comfortable with my PC, and my productivity (if I do something productive, that is) has increased 10 folds, as compared to Windows XP, and just about a billion times if compared to Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon.

This time, it didn't take me a lot of time to configure my system, maybe because I've done it so many times that I have become exceedingly efficient at it. So here's what I did, after of course, installing the basic system, in chronological order.

1) Fixed my screen resolution through the PCLOS control center. Though this is temporary, but extremely important for even the 1-2 hours I need to work to get my graphic card drivers installed. The resolution I choose is 1152x864. The default open source drivers work just fine for the basic use, but for OpenGL apps, I need to install the ATI drivers.

2) Next I configure networking, again from the Control Center, assign a static IP to my Ethernet connection, and put in the OpenDNS servers, in the order -

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