On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 09:12 +0800, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On 8/17/07, Herbert Graf wrote: > > Anyways, I'd like to thank all here who recommended Ubuntu. It really is > > a VERY good distro, and IMHO blows Fedora out of the water for a newer > > linux person. Chances are on my next "update my software" cycle Ubuntu > > will be replacing Fedora on my other machines as well. > > Yeah Ubuntu is the best distro for me. I have Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and 7.04 > on two partitions. > > To be fair, all the other major Linux distros are good as wll. I've > good experiences with FC6 as well. Different people have > different preferences though. I've been using FC6 since it came out, and FC6 is the reason I started looking elsewhere. As I mentioned before, I've been using Redhat for a while, and have installed every version of Fedora that has come out. I have become increasingly dissappointed with Fedora as each revision has been released after ver 3. IMHO it seems the Fedora people have started focusing too much on "get everything new in as fast as possible", and have started ignoring some of the tennants that make Linux so great. Case in point: the Intel 2200 wireless card in my laptop. This card has been out for perhaps 3 years now. It's VERY popular. There is a driver out there (ipw2200). Yet, Fedora STILL does not include it in the distro. Very frustrating. There are other examples like this. The final "nail in the coffin" for me and FC6 was a kernel update that resulted in my machine crashing. Older kernel worked fine, others reported the same issue, newer one, crash, every time, within 10 to 20 minutes of boot. Never before had a kernel released for a distro caused such a serious problem for me, and had I been relying on FC6 in a critical application I would have been very ticked. As it was, I just kept running the older kernel and filed a bug report. Supposedly it's fixed, I haven't bothered trying it. FC6 is a good distro (FC7 is out now, don't think I'll bother trying it), but I believe Fedora has lost their direction. So far, it looks like Ubuntu is for me. TTYL -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist