On 2/28/10 7:06 AM, Chris W Tucker wrote:
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Austin Leeds
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
I had always thought about using Fedora… it seemed like there was
something to it. Too bad, though. This thing's going to my parents in
a few weeks and I don't want to confuse them with a dual-boot system
(other than 9 and X). What would the differences be between Fedora and
Debian/Ubuntu?
Hi Austin,
Fedora is the test bed for Red Hat Enterprise linux and utilizes the RPM
system for package management. Personally I do not care for Ubuntu at
all. That is personal preference, not me slamming the distro before
someone gets upset.
Ubuntu does not support the ppc platform in their current release. They
have an older version you can run on ppc.
Official support for PPC in Ubuntu has been dropped but there is
unofficial (community supported they call it) support that has produced
a PPC release of the current Ubuntu. I tried it recently and so far it
looks pretty good.
Fedora 12 has ppc version and it pretty well runs out of the box.
However, with any linux version you are going to have to do some
configuring on your system.
If you need any help with a Fedora install, feel free to contact me off
list. I will mail you a copy of ppc12 if you want as well.
I've tried Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, SUSE and YDL, all on PPCs, G3s and G4s.
Debian is probably the most stable but because of that it tends to be
out of date. Some times I've installed it has gone without any trouble
but other times it needs some tweaking to get it started, usually
configuring the X server.
Fedora is more up to date but I have had more trouble with it crashing.
I think Fedora has required tweaking of the X server every time I've
installed it.
SUSE installed and ran without an trouble. I haven't really tried it
out much.
YDL is a a bit glitchy. It seems that support for it has dried up. I'm
running one version out from the latest and I can't find any servers to
run updates from. I'm not sure the latest version is any better.
Ubuntu took some futzing to install. The latest version (9.10) doesn't
fit on a CD (it's just slightly too large). It would hang several a
little after while boot, either the LiveCD (DVD) or the installed
version. I tried 9.04 and it worked much better. It fit on a CD, the
Live CD didn't hang nor did the installed version. The LiveCD did
require a kernel parameter (suggested at startup) to get it to work.
The installed version has been working well. It didn't require tweaking
the X server.
Once I got past the 9.10 version Ubuntu has probably been the easiest to
install and use of all the distros.
--
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
"I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"
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