On Fri, February 29, 2008 12:58 pm, Paul Norton wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> I've been ... not happy with Fedora in general and 8 in particular.
> This behavior is due to a kernel change in Linux. Why not try Ubuntu > 7.10? AFAIK, it doesn't do any of the above listed. Does Ubuntu not update its kernel? Whenever I start one of these threads, I get lots of helpful suggestions on which distros are better, but I've almost given up trying them. More than half are Debian based, and you might as well ask me to move to Norway (nice place, don't speak the language), and some are bootable DVDs which, quite frankly, I don't get unless we're talking about doing something from a windoze box w/o reformatting it. See my response to MattyJ for my tepid defense of my choice of Red Hat. But Fedora (as RH before it had also done) seems to suffer from creeping micro$oftification ... more and more magical automation that sucks, more eye candy, less control. It all reminds me of when HW manufacturers were replacing jumpers with SW switches, which was cool until something went wrong (and something always goes wrong). Blessedly, that hot flash has passed. Which returns me to my question about CentOS. Why _wouldn't_ one use it for a desktop? Am I missing some disadvantage? -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
