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Robin Lynn Frank wrote: | We are considering shifting our boxes from Mandrake to Fedora. I was | wondering if anyone here has done so, and what they found they preferred | in Fedora to Mandrake.
I liked KDE, and found Fedora will support KDE, but is not truly friendly to it. Too many of the system-* tools seem to do goofy things to me. So, I have given up and gone to GNOME, but still prefer KDE.
On the other hand, urpmi is a great idea that just does not work exactly right either. While not a big fan of yum, I LOVE apt. The repos are much better maintained due to saints like Dag Wieers. Therefore, I found much better software updates. I actually use apt to update its local cache each night via cron, then send me an email informing me of what needs upgrading. I then create a local icon on my desktop that will issue the upgrade command per server. This allows me to have all the advantages of a automatically updated system, with enough of a delay to control the insanity. Awesome system.
Lastly, Mandriva is much quicker to implement some of the gray licensed (mp3, dvd, etc) packages. I think Redhat gets a little too religious on the subject, but understand why. Mandriva is pretty loose on the subject, so some users may complain if these are desktops. The community, though, is great about how to find, and install, those packages. They just wont come in the box.
HTH
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