I briefly ran Fedora 9 on my last desktop for three month and it was
okay. Then it died and I got the new desktop and was only running
Ubuntu (8.04 and 8.10) along with Windows Vista.

I do not quite like the KDE 4.1 under Ubuntu 8.10 and I saw
that Fedora 10 comes with KDE 4.2. So I decided to give
it a try last week. I happened to find a book in the library
with Fedora 10 KDE live CD and DVD inside so this saved
me sometime to download the CD or DVD.

The first issue is that the Live CD can not go to X. So I had to
use the DVD. It does not boot X either but at least the txt mode
works. This is worse than the Ubuntu 8.10. I had to install
the Nvidia driver to get into X. Under Ubuntu 8.10, I can go
into X with VESA. Then I just enable the restricted driver to
get me the optimum resolution.

Once I had the X working I did a full system upgrade
using yum.

After that using rpmfusion I installed various program for
multimedia. The following guide helps.
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f10.html

Still I find one annoying thing is the new PackageKit.
I was hit by the following bug.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=208271

After solving the problem following the solution in the
thread, I decided to remove PackageKit related
things altogether and use yumex instead. Now I need
to manage the updates by myself but at least it is
better to be constantly annoyed by the background
packagekit process (often you are told that the database
is locked by another process when you want to use
yum or yumex).

Another bug I met is that switching to Chinese and KDE
would hang during log-in process. Later it was solved
after some updates.

With the initial bumpy process, now I can enjoying learning
to use KDE 4.2 under Fedora 10.

So all in all, Fedora 10 is not as smooth as Ubuntu 8.10
during the initial stage. But passing that stage, now it runs
rather well (both Gnome or KDE). I also tried LXDE and XFCE
and both run well.

One thing I like Fedora  than Ubuntu is the updating policy.
Fedora gives you major updates (like KDE 4.2 or the kernel)
during the support period but Ubuntu will keep the same old
version in the lifecycle.

Xiaofan
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