[PLUG] QUick Reccomendation

[Piet van Weel]

Ya know... I'll agree with you that the progress has been made in the
installation. 

HOWEVER...

I'm really starting to get peaved about the way the GUI's are being setup.
It's becoming harder and harder to get everything "Just So", before they
come out with said patch and hose the system. GNOME, KDE... etc.

Personally I still prefer the resource hogging Enlightenment, but everybody
else seems content with a one size fits all KDE or GNOME setup. 

Familiarity breeds Contentment...
Contentment breeds ... well, ya know the rest

Oh, well. These are the times...

Piet

>> I just want to give some added feedback on this. I just installed Fedora
>> for the first time (Fedora Core 3) and I was really impressed by the
>> ease of installation. It autodetected all of my hardware correctly, the
>> only thing I needed to do to configure X was pick a resolution.
>> 
>> I chose to use their default Gnome setup, and there was an icon right
>> there in the top bar warning me that there were updates I needed to
>> make. I ran up2date and it had to grab about 20-25 packages, but it went
>> very smoothly, including upgrading the kernel RPM.
>> 
>> I think it was the smoothest Linux install I've ever done.
>> 
>> With the updates available that easily and the inclusion of SELinux, it
>> seems good from a security standpoint as well, although I haven't poked
>> at it much yet.
>> 
>> As a side note, I'm pretty amazed at how easy the installs have gotten
>> in general. I'm sure that a lot of people take that for granted, it's
>> what they expect out of an operating system, but when I think back to
>> the old days of downloading floppy images, screwing around with X
>> configs, and all of that, it's really something to see the progress that
>> has been made.