On 15/05/07, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/03/where_fedora_went_wrong.html What are your comments? I feel simillar.
I've just installed Ubuntu this morning on my Dell Inspiron E1505/6400. It boots in about 2/3 the time Fedora boots (37 sec vs 61 sec), the Wi-Fi JustWorks (Intel chipset), and the bluetooth work right out of the box. Does that make Ubunut better? No. I did not have a graphical environment as Ubuntu did not detect my ATI X1400 graphics card, and vesa does not support it. I had to google using lynx for about three hours until I found the solution in the Ubuntu bugzilla. That is less user friendly than Fedora had ever been to me. I find that whenever I'm using Fedora I cry for the stability of Ubuntu, yet whenever I use Ubuntu I cry for the features of Fedora. I'm no power user, but I'm learning. Although apt and yum do the exact same thing so far as I'm concerned, I prefer yum for the simple fact that all the the commands start with "yum" and not "apt-get" or "apt-cache" or "apt-GoogleMe". Howeve, Fedora has broken things on me too many times lately, and I need things like VMWare to run solid works and ATI DRI support to run Google Earth. This is a workstation, not a playground. Another thing that Fedora has over Ubuntu is the mailing list. The overall technical understanding of users on this list is _much_ higher than on the Ubuntu list. There, if one mentions the command line its as if he had suggested murder. Microsoft bashing is also too ramant there. Here, semi-official participation of Red Hat by Rahul, for instance, lends a very professional feel to the list. I like that. I don't want a bunch of kids supporting my OS, official or not. And all the non-Red Hat people who help with the technical nitty-gritty are also very, very much appreciated. I never unsubscribed from the Fedora list when distro hopping, for those very reasons. I just wish that the package management wasn't so broken. I understand that Fedora is an unstable, bleeding edge distro. But I need to work. Having wireless, VMWare, and some other minor stuff suddenly stop working is untolerable. That's too bad. Be back around FC8 or so, unless I see that FC7 is much, much more stable than the past two cores.. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/fedora_core.html http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/lyrics/105/321/madonna/music.html
