On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 10:20 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:45:18 -0700 > > makhlina@xxxxxxxxx (Alex Makhlin) wrote: > > Both distros have live media. Why don't you download them and try out > > each and decide for yourself which one you like? > Good advice. Yep. > I was installing Linux for a friend, and figured I'd give them Ubuntu > as I it would hopefully be easier for them than Fedora. Tried the > LiveCD, kept freezing up (requiring hard restarts). Did an install > figuring I just needed to update to a new kernel, pre and post full > system update, still kept hard freezing. So I went back to old > faithful Fedora. This doesn't mean much. It can be an arbitrary small detail (E.g. a kernel or a packaging bug on a DVD), which may spoil everything in a particular scenario, esp. on a machine, which never has seen Linux before. I recently tried to install Fedora 9 on a brand new machine and ended up as you did with Ubuntu. Any attempts to install FC9 failed in very early stages of installing. I resorted to trying FC10-Beta2, which at least enabled me to boot and to install. Now, I am experiencing the "fun" of rawhide ;) If I were consequent, I would now give Ubuntu or openSUSE a try :) Ralf -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
