zenith said:

Checking out the Fedora 8 live cd. Sound works, wireless works, so out of the box it's one up on Ubuntu already. :)

1 year, 7 months ago.

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Not sure I can give up on Ubuntu though, might dual boot for a while.

1 year, 7 months ago by zenith
I found Fedora 8 to be well done, good network controls

1 year, 7 months ago by silversurfer
Red Hat vs Debian based distros

1 year, 7 months ago by silversurfer
It does seem to be a well polished distro, but you never can tell until you're using a working install for a while. I'm always reluctant to abandon Ubuntu because you really can't beat the community support behind it. But this does look really nice...

1 year, 7 months ago by zenith
It's a clash of the titans, I love Debian and it's derivative but I also like Red Hat distros too. They each have their own strengths and weaknesses. Let's leave Slackware out of it though hey XD

1 year, 7 months ago by dantheman
a notable difference is software installation, yum vs apt/synaptic

1 year, 7 months ago by silversurfer
@silversurfer Personally I've had better experiences with solving dependencies using apt than yum.

1 year, 7 months ago by hypocrisy
@Dan - don't worry, you won't find me on Slackware any time soon. :)

1 year, 7 months ago by zenith
Yes I also don't think Yum is quite as good as Apt, it's not bad but it doesn't quite seem to work as well for me. Maybe it's cos I've become so used to Apt I dunno.

1 year, 7 months ago by dantheman
Yum needs more hands-on action if you want to solve dependencies, but once you know how to do that, it's no major problems.

1 year, 7 months ago by hypocrisy
And Apt has Super Cow Powers!

1 year, 7 months ago by silversurfer
http://www.eeggs.com/items/37085.html

1 year, 7 months ago by silversurfer
@silversurfer that's funny :)

1 year, 7 months ago by hypocrisy
Dan is to apt to use yum. And Aptitude has no Super Cow Powers...

1 year, 7 months ago by fabsh
have yall had trouble with any of these distros not finding your dvd drive?

1 year, 7 months ago by Techsyslonghorn
No, I've tried quite a few distros over the last few weeks and none have failed to detect my dvd drive. You having trouble with yours?

1 year, 7 months ago by zenith
Never had that problem, Charlie... What does ls in the /media or /mnt directories give you?

1 year, 7 months ago by fabsh
no clue what you mean by that fab. remember I'm still fresh out of the egg

1 year, 7 months ago by Techsyslonghorn
Oh, sorry..... Can you open a Terminal, type these commands and give me the output?

cd /media

ls -la

1 year, 7 months ago by fabsh
@Techsyslonghorn: it as happen to me. but the prob was that the drive was not properly plugin on my laptop.

1 year, 7 months ago by BUGabundo
@fab I cant even get that far... I start the install with all the normal questions like whats the keyboard, are you live in, then detect cd, thats where it stops. Now I did the commands through Ubuntu- because Fedora wont boot up.

charlie@charlie-desktop:/media$ ls -la total 16 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2007-10-15 18:17 . drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2007-11-04 07:14 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2007-11-04 06:59 cdrom -> cdrom0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-11-04 06:59 cdrom0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2007-11-04 06:59 floppy -> floppy0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-11-04 06:59 floppy0 charlie@charlie-desktop:/media$

1 year, 7 months ago by Techsyslonghorn
OK, so Ubuntu can see your drive. How come you can run the install CD and then it won't read your drive???

1 year, 7 months ago by fabsh
I have no clue.... its weird

1 year, 7 months ago by Techsyslonghorn
@Techsyslonghorn: it seems that you have a damage CD. reboot and check the cd from the boot menu.

1 year, 7 months ago by BUGabundo
If I understand Charlie right, it happens with a lot of CDs....

1 year, 7 months ago by fabsh