Thanks for the great read. Hope you enjoy Fedora! :)
-- Robin On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I just saw that the "Guess who's right behind Ubuntu at Distrowatch" has > been continuing as some learned Fedora vs Ubuntu debate. Since I deleted > those messages, I have to start a new thread. > > Countrary to most people here, I'm not very tech savvy. All I want is my > distro to work. I have a certain age, my health is, to say the least, less > than optimal and, to me, the less trouble, the better. > > I tried (K)Ubuntu and Debian about 2 years ago before adopting Mandriva > and, with both distros, after spending 15 minutes listening to streaming > audio with Amarok, I found that, on the next reboot, both my user and root > passwords were changed. Not being very much into security auditing, I > opted for Mandriva because, at the time, SELinux still seemed to cause > issues with Fedora. > > Mandriva fared well except, at the end, it would take about 5 minutes to > boot. Glitch or hack, I have no idea, but I put up with this for maybe two > months because, the Mandriva community being less learned than the Fedora > community, I didn't feel like inquiring about this very uncommon matter. > > > As Fedora 11 came out, I bought a new computer. SELinux issues seemed to > have been ironed out and I also soon found out that it was the only distro > that would install with a correct 1280 x 1024 screen definition. Mandriva, > for instance, never could get me to a login screen. Suse, which I would > never have been caught dead using, gave me a 800 x 600 screen and, as far > as I remember, it was the best of the bunch. There was a time when I > fiddled in xf86config, but not anymore... > > So, Fedora chose me more than I chose Fedora. I was afraid that, Fedora > having a bleeding edge reputation, some applications would prove unstable, > but it wasn't the case. > > The only serious problem I had with Fedora is a kmod-nvidia package from > testing was installed while I had never enabled testing. How this > happened, I have no idea. > > Of course. I've read that deb packaging being more elaborate than rpm, > upgrades are easier. I'll see. I hope it's not too complicated 'cause, for > the time being, I'm in bed 12 hours a day and, on big days, I wash the > dishes. > > I know geeks like Fedora, but I hope it keeps working for me too. Though > Fedora 11 worked right out of the box two weeks after release, now that I > have it installed on my computer, I might wait a month or two before I > adopt the new version of Fedora. I just don't want to take chances. > > >From what I read along the last years, it seems that integrating SELinux > seemlessly into Fedora has been a painstaking experiment. So much so that > only Red Hat/Fedora went for this venture straight on without > shilly-shallying. Even Suse has pretty much given up on AppArmor > development, whose implementation was easier than SELinux. > > People here talk a lot about package management. As the security of the > net is not improving and Linux market share will hopefully be increasing, > I wonder if Red Hat's investments in security will not be what will > finally pay off. > > I'm as far from a geek as anybody can be, but I certainly appreciate that > Fedora chose me. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines >
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