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 Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:55 pm
Hey all. I'm considering switching to Fedora, KDE desktop. Main reason for the desktop which is the KDE 4 desktop's looking pretty slick. However, I know absolutely jack about Fedora when compared to Ubuntu (Which has been my workhorse for the past couple of years, alongside CrunchBang) so if you would please voice your opinions, that'd be much appreciated. biggrin
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Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:06 am
Well for me RedHat and Fedora OSes usually don't like to install so the experience I have with them is Fedora 6, Fedora 10, and Fedora 11 Beta. From the time played with those Fedora is great compared to Ubuntu, but as for the package management system difference it is RPM vs DEB, yum vs apt-get, as for GUI tools Fedora has the same GUI program Ubuntu uses just modified for RPMs. I'm sure there are more major differences that I forgot to mention, if I have feel free to add on, as for my opinion on this matter I say go with it.
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:18 pm
I can't remember if Fedora has a centalized package manager like Ubuntu's apt-get or its frontends Aptitude and Synaptic, but then again, last time I used Fedora was around 2005 when it was still Fedora 4. I say this because SUSE's package manager is also RPM-based, but it doesn't has online RPM repositories, everything must be installed from the DVD, and since I have like 8 DVD fifty-packs worth of anime, it's a b***h having to shuffle through all of them to look for my SUSE disc. sweatdrop
Fedora, however, caught my attention in that the installer does lets you choose what do you want to install. Ubuntu just plops all the default packages into your drive; Fedora, however, lest you choose if you want a typical desktop configuration, a more complete server config with more programs, no X and no desktop environment (because servers are all console you know), or a development environment with all the libraries and headers you need to write an app.
Also, I don't know about right now, but back when I switched from Fedora to Ubuntu, the latter already had a much better hardware support (for example, you could read NTFS drives right off the bat, in Fedora you had to manually install a kernel module).
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:09 pm
Da_Nuke I can't remember if Fedora has a centalized package manager like Ubuntu's apt-get or its frontends Aptitude and Synaptic, but then again, last time I used Fedora was around 2005 when it was still Fedora 4. I say this because SUSE's package manager is also RPM-based, but it doesn't has online RPM repositories, everything must be installed from the DVD, and since I have like 8 DVD fifty-packs worth of anime, it's a b***h having to shuffle through all of them to look for my SUSE disc. sweatdrop Fedora has a central repository (and so does SuSE). It has a front-end called Yum. Da_Nuke Also, I don't know about right now, but back when I switched from Fedora to Ubuntu, the latter already had a much better hardware support (for example, you could read NTFS drives right off the bat, in Fedora you had to manually install a kernel module). They're about equal with hardware support, but Ubuntu does a little more configuration for you out of the box than Fedora.
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 8:11 pm
Sitwon Da_Nuke I can't remember if Fedora has a centalized package manager like Ubuntu's apt-get or its frontends Aptitude and Synaptic, but then again, last time I used Fedora was around 2005 when it was still Fedora 4. I say this because SUSE's package manager is also RPM-based, but it doesn't has online RPM repositories, everything must be installed from the DVD, and since I have like 8 DVD fifty-packs worth of anime, it's a b***h having to shuffle through all of them to look for my SUSE disc. sweatdrop Fedora has a central repository (and so does SuSE). It has a front-end called Yum. I would also like to add that SUSE (now the correct way to write it sense 10.x) does have online repos just look at http://download.opensuse.org/update/http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/http://download.opensuse.org/factory/http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/ For more information on SUSEs package management systems please see http://en.opensuse.org/Documentation/Package_Management. To get it to stop asking for a CD/DVD all you have to do is disable to repository for the disk, it will be lissed as something like "cd://" Da_Nuke Also, I don't know about right now, but back when I switched from Fedora to Ubuntu, the latter already had a much better hardware support (for example, you could read NTFS drives right off the bat, in Fedora you had to manually install a kernel module). They're about equal with hardware support, but Ubuntu does a little more configuration for you out of the box than Fedora.Try installing ntfs-3g then mounting or adding your NTFS partition to fstab and see what happens xd . As Sitwon pointed out it depends on the distro on how they support different things out of the box.
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