On 6/4/07, Jesse Stay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/4/07, Clint Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as F7 goes itself, I think its pretty solid. Give it a couple weeks > and the minor bugs should be sorted out. Seems about normal. This was the release that finally converted me to Ubuntu. FC6 I could easily get my wireless card working. F7 - not a chance, and Gnome kept freezing on me. I'm on an IBM Thinkpad R51, which I would imagine quite a large number of Linux users use - I find it hard to believe Fedora/Redhat did not test on this before release. If I have to go through that much trouble to get it working, it's not worth it to me. When I loaded Ubuntu, my wireless card worked, even during the install - no additional configurations on my part! I think both Fedora and Ubuntu have finally convinced me where the "real" distro is. :-) I hereby F4 the F7...
Jesse, First of all, the wireless issue *should* work. There was extensive work done for the (intel and others) wireless cards. I am a bit surprised at your experience. My errors were mostly with things like KVM and beryl. I didn't have that much trouble getting it installed. However, if wireless is your only issue, it sounds like you have higher expectations of proprietary driver manufacturers than I do. Anyway, I'd say that there is another argument you might need to address with regard to "Fedora v Ubuntu", and that is where they started and where they're going. Fedora started more on the server side, stable httpd, bind, postfix, etc. are a given, whereas on Ubuntu, this hasn't been the case until recently. With Ubuntu, they focused on Linux for the desktop and gave it pretty features and user binaries. Because of this, I think both distros lack something. This is a good thing, having both distros driving from different ends of a spectrum might actually prove to get both distros better overall. I like what Fedora has done and will probably never go away from it. Sure there are desktop problems, but the server side has always been stable for me. I like Ubuntu for its ease of install and flexible user interfaces, but it has a long way to go on the server side IMO. I guess the question is, which things do you want to have lacking? And the answer isn't just as simple as 'I like Ubuntu because' or 'I like Fedora because' necessarily. Pick your OS based upon a target system ad you'll find that you might choose something different each time. Who knew! Cheers, Clint /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
