[Klug-general] Distro Wars

[Karl Lattimer]

Fedora core offers two major benefits.

Stable, integrated and tested source. It all works together nicely, no
over configuration (i.e. building from tarball) required.

Six month release schedules, updates with yum which offers the very best
in dag,fresh,new,at etc for all the add ons you want. All built for FC.

Take a for instance...

I install FC3, pretty standard gnome install, I add extra repo's in for
yum. Then i start installing the mustaves;

yum install j2re mozilla-j2re gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio gstreamer-
plugins-extra-video gstreamer-plugins-extra-dvd swfdec mozilla-swfdec
mozilla-totem inkscape ximian-artwork gnome-themes-extra etc........

Then I've got, java, DVD/DivX/Mp3 playback, flash/shockwave.

What more do you need?

But I would like to get a red carpet style interface to yum. This would
increase brownie points lots (up2date is pretty g4y)

Karl,


On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 13:16 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> >                          For   Against
> > Mandrake            6
> > SUSE                  2
> > Ubuntu                1         1
> > Gentoo                1         1
> > Fedora                1          2
> > Debian                1
> > Novell Desktop   1
> >
> I choose Fedora Core 3, closely followed by 2 :)
> 
> I started out on SUSE 8.0 that I absolutely hated and soon gave up on and went 
> back to M$. And then at the beginning of this year I moved over to White Box 
> Enterprise Linux [a RHEL clone]. After several months I moved over to RedHat 
> 9 followed by FC2 with very short trials of Mandrake 9 something [it was 
> short, a matter of hours ... I didn't like the menu layout in Mandrake]. And 
> here I'll stick for the foreseeable future :)
> 
> Take care
> Sharon.