[Wolves] More Ubuntu woes...

[Peter Cannon]

On Wednesday 22 December 2004 20:15, Tim Humpherson wrote:

> At the moment I am using SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional, but I am
> thinking of having a go at Fedora Core 3.  Any comments on this?  
> Should I stick with SuSE or is FC3 any better?   I heard that FC3 has
> the option of APT package included or am I wrong there?  FC4 (soon) is
> said to be more stable?   Hmmm, I'll have to wait and see for that one
> to come out.

OK, make a cup of coffee, here we go.

I currently run Fedora Core 3 on my Dell Latitude laptop if you like RedHat 
you'll love Fedora it does run apt I exclusively use it with Synaptic front 
end.

My mate Sparkes :-) was about 60% correct when he said it was a dead end 
Distro but then that depends on what your expectations are, if your looking 
for a 90-95% stable release with lots and lots of updates and new stuff being 
available very regularly then this is for you. Most of the bugs and hardware 
problems (theres not that many) are fixed fairly quickly what nearly all 
Fedora users fail to remember is there are two points about this Distro;

1. Its Free! you didn't pay for it so don't bitch about it!
2. It is RedHats 'Research & Development' department! all Fedora users are 
trying out stuff, fixing stuff that may show up in their 'pay for' releases.

I also use Suse 9.2 on my PC (Thanks Adam) This is how a paid for Distro 
should be, works out of the box (in most cases) you don't need any special 
skills to use it it will automatically set up drives devices and goodness 
knows what.

I do have a sealed box of Suse Pro 9.2 available (My mate came up trumps Adam) 
while I do have a slight modem problem at the minute I think this is my fault 
and not the Distro.

If I was asked to decide which one I could keep and which to lose I would 
probably keep the Fedora I have used RedHat since day one so its like that 
old jumper you just cant throw it out, however if I was asked which one for a 
newbie and they was the only two choices I would say Suse.

Sorry if thats not given you any hard facts as to which one but at least I 
currently use both Distros :-)

Have a MERRY CHRISTMAS one and all.

-- 
Regards,
Peter Cannon.
peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk

"There is every excuse for not knowing
there is no excuse for not asking"
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