[Leaplist] FC6 conversion from Ubuntu?

[patrick]

Marc wrote:
>
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <http://bellsouth.net>
>
>     Finding a solution to a problem doesn't solve the problem...
>     Implementing the solution solves the problem.
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My conversion went from Mandriva7 through all the iterations up to 8.1, 
then to Red Hat up throught 9 that vaporized, at which time I did some 
Debian Distros.  Until the FC5 work we all did at  Woodruff Academy, I 
had not been back for more since putting a faulty install of FC4 on one 
machine. 

But, http://pclinuxos.com does it all and then some.  It is lauded as 
Mandriva done better.

Now, I am doing the excellent Mandriva based bleeding edge distro,  
http://pclinuxos.com  and handing out the free cdroms.