> Hi Rory! > > Interesting to hear! Thanks for mentioning! > > As for installation I think it can't be made easier than in Fedora. > It's almost the same as a windoze install, except things like >firewall, package selection... > > I downloaded mandrake 10 a few weeks ago, after trying to install > debian sarge (what a pain) but never installed it. > I was a bit confused about the negative voices about FC1, so I ended > up with fedora a little late, when test2 was released, but so far I > don't regret it. Except the mozilla-unicode-x-server-crash-issue, it > runs very good on my box! > > Sorry, can't throw in my 2 cents on yum, since I still must figure out > myself how to configure it. > > > Cheers, > Hannes in Austria. Hi Hannes, I actually managed to install Debian Install after a minor initial hiccup. I actually really liked Debian and, after using Mandrake for a while, it was my first introduction to Apt, which I loved and which sold me. However, Debian just wasn't bleeding-edge enough for me, as I like all the new toys. I'm very happy with Fedora. That's not to say I don't have issue: KDE is a bit buggy and sluggish, I haven't been able to install mplayer yet, kmail won't work, sound doesn't properly work (a 2.6 kernel issue, I think, as I see it in Mandrake and SuSE) and while Fedora automatically found the shared folders on a networked XP box, it prompts me for a password to access them each time when no password exists. So, I have my wrinkles to iron out. But, this is the same with every major distro I've tried. They all have their strengths and weaknesses, but at least we have the *choice* to discover this by trying different ones out, unlike using Windows, where you just have to adapt to its quirks and assume you can't do anything about it. The one thing I find off-putting about Fedora is the community that is building up around it. It seems like a number of the veterans (albeit a minority) feel comfortable making nasty comments to new users and Windows-convertees. I guess the Linux snobs invade the lists of every distro, but there's a nasty tone to some members here. Hopefully, that will change before that tone becomes entrenched in the Fedora community. Otherwise, Fedora is a great distro and *is* stable relative to other distros, it balances stability with bleeding-edge nicely, the RedHat staff who are involved with the community are helpful and nice and seem to want to create a really good free (non-prop) product. Woops, did I just use the word "product?" :) Rory On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 10:42, Hannes Mayer wrote: > Rory Gleeson wrote: > > I'm new to Fedora and Yum, just getting on the bandwagon on Test 3. I'm> > a convert from Mandrake, which is *NOT* more user-friendly, easier to > > install, easier to update or have better hardware and network detection > > on install than Fedora, contrary to popular opinion. But, that's for > > another thread. And whether Fedora is a "project" or "product" intended > > for "hobbyists" or "non-corporate home users" doesn't really matter to > > me, since it seems intended to stand up against the other major distros > > and DOES!
