On 10/28/05, gaurav <gauravp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ~ Sometimes I think I am wasting my time on fedora . > I got ubuntu on onmy laptop works flawlessly with 3 year support cycle > , 16,000 pakages (mutiunivese repo) and of course apt , sysnaptic , > adept and rock solid :-) plus cutting pakages and six month release > schedule and with no strings attached > > I some times feel fedora is like lab rat for RH ... > > are we wasting time On fedora ?? Should we move 100% comunity based > project like ubuntu ? > > pl ppl let me know your views :-) Fedora packages the important stuff. Personally, I want the big, important stuff packaged and packaged well. I'm not going to compile KDE. I can download and compile favorite-utility-program-foo, so I don't really care if the distribution packages it. Fedora is lean enough that I can install everything then just remove the obvious i18n packages. So, I never have to worry about finding which stupid development header package I need to install to compile my programs. The packages are very up-to-date (perhaps even too much so, for a general purpose distribution). Personally, I wouldn't use Fedora for a server machine, but it's nice on my desktop. And the fonts are well done. I really have better things to do than tweaking fonts, and even other major Linux distributions are pretty lame in the font department sometimes. Hardware support is really good. That's my biggest complaint with "more pure" community-based distributions, the hardware support. You can get anything working under any modern Linux that you could under any other, but the ease certainly varies. Fedora does nice things, like a default FC4 install used LVM. Overall, Fedora just does things relatively well out of the box, in almost every case. The packages are compiled with -mtune=pentium4. Fedora "just works" for me where other distributions turn into a nightmare, particularly "more pure" community-based distributions. There's prelink over there in the daily cron job. I think I had to set that sort of thing up manually on Debian. Small example, general principle: Fedora tends to save my time and energy. There's the livna repository, where I can directly install stuff that requires special debs and compiling under Ubuntu. Which is a good example of the good community support. I've been around the block, used Linux on and off since the mid 90s. I've used Slackware, Debian, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mandrake, SUSE, Gentoo, Ubuntu, and probably some others I'm forgetting. Stuff that was once fun is now merely wearying. Fedora is one of the easier and better working distributions in my experience, and my experience is pretty broad. Try them all. Use what you like.
