Maciej R. wrote:
I wanted to ask why you are using 'Fedora' and not for example 'Suse' or 'Debian'? What is the reason for choosing 'Fedora'?
As a user and non techie with a background of 17 years of MS-OSs I swapped to Linux - mainly because I was pissed off with all those vulnerabilities and viruses - I tried Linux about a year ago and chose RH9 and then FC1. Why?
1.
With Debian based distributions I was never able to connect to the internet and never found out how to through DSL (at least here in Hungary) - be it Knoppix, Gnoppix, Ubuntu: I am too stupid for that.
2.
I tried SuSE 9.1 pro (bought it) on the desktop and it installed fine and I could connect to the internet, but ... well ... it's a bit ugly compared to RHL and FC - and for me it is important that I like the fonts and the icons (warning: very personal viewpoint :).
More of a reason: I tried SuSE 9.1 pro on my HP zd7000 notebook and could not get the 1440x900 screen working (same modeline as in Fedora). So it is not usable.
And maybe I do not like the approach that you get all the goodies and non-open-stuff only when you buy a pro-version. It's a bit too much dependency on one company (very personal viewpoint).
I bought and tried SuSE once but it could not satisfy my needs and did not have the high aesthetical standards as I was used from RH 9 and FC.
3.
RH 9 and then Fedora worked always out of the box and it is beautiful (fonts, icons, and I like Bluecurve). For all issues I had I found solutions either through the Red Hat documentations or through Google searches (mainly from this list and that's why I am a subscriber to this list.
If you had a choice between 'Suse 9.2 Professional - DVD Edition' and 'Fedora Core 3 on DVD' what would you do?
Try both but I think I would stick to FC3. It's a more open project, through extra and alternative repositories one can get so many nice applications (and I learnt how to set preferences through apt, so I usually do not have issues with mixing repositories).
And it is still a beauty and I am not getting tired when I use it at work on the notebook and at home (and I read quite a lot on the screen).
Summary:
RHL and Fedora worked for me always out of the box from day one on any box, I liked it and it is so powerful but also easy to use so that I was able to replace Windows totally within six months (then I felt able enough to kick the Win2000 hd ... I did not need the "security net" anymore).
-- Regards Markus Huber
