Wade
Karl Hakmiller wrote:
I, too, have been exploring alternatives since Rh's announcement. I had been using Mandrake before I switched to RH about a year ago (first 8.2 and then 9.0 - which I'm now using). I've been very pleased with RH from the start and kept current with all the updates in kernel and apps as they came along. A piece of cake to maintain.
As a trial I ordered the Debian CDs (Woody, not Sarge) and gave the installation a try. Major pains followed. After the third attempt to install Debian (not as a dual-boot but all by itself on a Pentium II 300 MHz
80 Gig Dell machine I'd been running the RH on), I finally gave up after messy failures. I reinstalled the RH 9.0 from original CDs, updated everything with apt-get and was back in operation in just over an hour.
It's possible that I received bad CDs from the online source for my Debian
OS and I may yet give it another try with isos I download myself but I did
notice this difference between the RH and Debian installs: My one semi-correct install of Debian was incomplete in that the Network did not install (I could not get the system to recognize the NIC) and in RH that was never a problem).
I've read the RH docs on installing Fedora and with this history of Debian problems, I'd sure appreciate any "heads-up" warnings that are not mentioned in those docs from those on this list who have installed Fedora from the isos.
Thanks in advance.
Karl L
On Wednesday 31 December 2003 10:38, Krikket wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Mark Haney wrote:
Okay, kind of a stupid and maybe useless question, but as I"ve been really tinkering with (gasp!) SUSE, I'm kind of wondering how stable FC1 really is? I mean I realize there are issues, otherwise this list wouldn't be very useful, but how well does it work as a Workstation (not server) as compared with any other distros especially RH9?
I can't compare to RH9, but I *can* compare it to SuSE 9.0
Don't switch to SuSE. Trust me on this one. Baaad juju. After seing what was available, I decided to go with SuSE for my first real exposure to Linux in 6+ years. (And I had no experience with a Linux GUI at that point.)
If you needs are met 100% by what's available on the distro CDs, then SuSE could work for you. But adding anything else? Damn near impossible. There are some things I *couldn't* get installed under SuSE, that were a breeze with Fedora. I'm not the only one wih those problems either.
On the positive side, there are more GUI controls for things. So if that's what you're looking for, then maybe it's for you.
Also you can *forget* right now about editing files by hand and expecting them to stay that way, and work correctly. The SuSE likes to rewrite stuff on you without warning.
In short, the problems I had with SuSE 9.0 were great enough that I abandoned it, even though I paid the $80 for the Professional version.
Using Fedora, I've had a *lot* fewer problems.
Krikket
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