[PLUG] Fedora 10 released! :)
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
znmeb at cesmail.net
Wed Nov 26 09:44:22 UTC 2008
Matt McKenzie wrote:
> Well if you like SuSE and Gentoo and Debian more power to ya.
>
> I think though to be fair and give Fedora an honest evaluation on *your*
> actual hardware you should give it a go with a LiveCD (or Live USB) instead
> of just running it in VMWare and giving up on it.
>
> Care to elaborate on what didn't impress you with Fedora, that you see
> present in OpenSuSE or Gentoo?
It's mostly that there don't seem to be *more* packages in Fedora 10
than there are in OpenSuSE 11.0 / 11.1. The short history is that I have
two machines, a 4 GB Athlon64 X2 desktop running Gentoo and an ancient
Compaq Presario dual-booted XP and some random version of Linux. The
laptop used to be Gentoo, but I left it powered off for a couple of
months and by the time I brought it back up, I was looking at days of
compiles in a 512 MB 1.6 GHz machine to make it current.
So I started testing binary distros on it. First Etch and then I settled
on Fedora 9. It ran Fedora 9 for a while, but I had some problems with
LCD projectors and my wireless USB gizmo didn't work. When openSUSE 11.0
came out, I tried it, and the wireless worked out of the box. So the
laptop was on openSUSE 11.0 until 11.1 beta 4 came out, at which point I
switched. It's stable and I don't plan to change it until at least
mid-December.
The desktop is still on Gentoo, but I am strongly considering moving it
to a binary distro as well. Again, nothing is going to happen until
mid-December, but in the end I will probably rebuild both the laptop and
the desktop to the same OS, either openSUSE 11.1 or Debian Lenny. Ubuntu
is not a candidate.
> Note I am a Fedora Ambassador so I may be a little biased, but I have used
> and continue to use other distros (Ubuntu and Debian, along with Fedora,
> currently). I've been a RedHat/Fedora user a lot longer than Ambassador
> though.
I used to be a Gentoo advocate, as most of the denizens of this list
know. There's nothing wrong with Gentoo once you get it all set up, but
they've let their release engineering process essentially collapse, so
the installer is just as bad as it was a year ago, they cancelled 2008.1
and the 2008.0 LiveCD didn't even boot on my laptop.
My Gentoo desktop is about as solid as you can expect for someone who
runs "testing" level with a couple of overlays. But there's a lot of
software out there that's not in Portage but is in Debian. And having
two different distros on the desktop and the laptop isn't an ideal way
to live. So I am guessing when all is said and done, both machines will
be running Lenny, with R and Ruby built from source rather than from the
Debian packages.
--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
ruby-perspectives.blogspot.com/
"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." --
Alfréd Rényi via Paul Erdős
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