[Leaplist] FC6 conversion from Ubuntu?

[Marc]

I am the opposite at this point.  I have been a 'die hard' RH user until
recently when I decided that I was tired of 'carrying water' for a company
that is consistently flaky with regards to some of its software (RHCS, GFS),
most especially with regards to support of mission critical apps they sell,
flaky people who work for the company, and now the recent thing with FC6 and
the fact that RH now wants you to 'register' with them and/or be tracked by
them.  I just left all the RH lists I was on and I am a happy Ubuntu user
now.  Anything that I can't do I will post, get help with, invent a way to
do it, find a workaround, etc.

Personally I am happier with a somewhat less bleeding edge, but more stable
distro.  The only advice I can say is to find a way around the
'registration' process with FC6.  That is, unless they have backed off of
that in the past 2 weeks or so.  I am still open to SuSE if the desktop
product is worth buying but it's hard to beat free (as in beer ha ha).


Good luck
Marc




On 11/10/06, Dan Cherry <dscherry at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> Brief background...
> My earlier linux experience was primarily with Debian, but I needed a
> distro with more up-to-date software releases (64 bit was agonizingly
> slow to mature, and my laptop had several hacks that often broke with
> updates).  Last year, I tried FC5, but ran into a few problems (mostly
> my lack of knowledge about the differences in how the distros work, LVM
> issues and grub peculiarities).  I wound up switching everything to
> Xubuntu with IceWM, and basically everything works very well on all
> machines.
>
> Questions...
> Does anybody have an opinion based on experience, that I try FC6?
>
> If I try it, any warnings or installation advice?
>
> Are the gains worth the effort to learn the differences? No distro wars
> - please ;-)  but advice about FC6 is certainly welcome (again, based on
> experiences).
>
> I don't have any particular reason for changing, other than hearing a
> lot of good things about Fedora, and having some how-to's for setting up
> a video box on Fedora that seems easier than inventing a way to do it on
> Ubuntu.
>
> Is the FC6 64 bit version mature enough to use without a lot of tweaking
> or workarounds?
>
> Phil, you have/had a laptop that was exactly the same as mine (HP
> ze4400) - did you, or anyone else with a similar laptop, move to FC6?
> If so, did everything basically work?  Any suggestions?
>
> I know this is really vague, but thanks for any comments that may help.
>
> --
> Dan Cherry
> dscherry (@) bellsouth.net
>
> Finding a solution to a problem doesn't solve the problem...
> Implementing the solution solves the problem.
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