[Leaplist] FC6 conversion from Ubuntu?

[Homer Whittaker]

Patrick:  That sort of looks like what I have been looking for. 
Do they have both "live" and "install" disks, and where do you get the 
samples?
Next question, is it Debian based? and what is involved in changing ones 
Ubuntu over to the pclinuxos.com flavor?  I sort of hate to do four 
machines over.
Oh, yes, is it AMD64 bit or what?
Homer


patrick wrote:
> 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.
>
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