Fedora Core 6

[wfarr]

Hello all!

Are there any Fedora users here?

Up until now, I've been an Ubuntu user... however I want to reach out and explore Linux some more, and I've decided to first give Fedora Core 6 a bit of a run.

What are your experiences with the installation and the distribution as a whole? What are your likes and dislikes concerning it? On a scale of 1 to 10, where would you rate its usability?

[imnotpc]

I'm also in the market for a new distro. I just installed openSUSE 10.2 and it's not as nice as 10.1. My only pre-requisites are it has to have good kde support and has to run on x86_64. I used Redhat back from 6.2 to 7.3 but lost interest when they made it difficult to update without a contract and started to focus on gnome. Is it worth a look now?

[wfarr]

I'm also in the market for a new distro. I just installed openSUSE 10.2 and it's not as nice as 10.1. My only pre-requisites are it has to have good kde support and has to run on x86_64. I used Redhat back from 6.2 to 7.3 but lost interest when they made it difficult to update without a contract and started to focus on gnome. Is it worth a look now?

I'm not sure of Redhat/Fedora philosophy and such, but I've always gotten the feel that they tend to be generally GNOME-centric while offering the possibility of KDE. :)

Since you're 64-bit, I'd look into a distro that supports multi-arch; in the end, I think you'll get the most bang out of a distro with multi-arch.

[imnotpc]

The last time I looked at distros I tried out Kubuntu and liked it. My main issue was that it really wasn't useful as a server and since I have to maintain everything, having a single platform for desktops and servers is important to me. I also liked Mandriva and had actually started to move to it, but I had so many problems I went back to SUSE.

[mikedee]

Here is my basic outdated opinion of each distro, in the order of my use :)

1. Redhat / Fedora - Its the standard and was a good one to start with. Now days I do not think that it offers much above any other distro. RPM hell, circular dependency nightmare. Its hard or impossible to dist-upgrade without frying the box.
2. Mandrake/Mandriva - Was the original nice user friendly distro before Ubuntu. Has nice tools but they have suffered a battering recently.
3. Debian/Slackware - Not for the faint of heart, nuff said.
4. Gentoo - I am in distro heaven, no dependency problems, the perfect packaging system. I mainly chose it because I use amd64 and gentoo offers perfect compatability (I do not have to search for the correct 64bit binary in a i386 world). Upgrading is a breeze and you can pretend to co-workers/friends that you are actually reading the gcc output ;). Upgrading KDE or Mozilla takes a LONG time (although this is supposed to be getting better). Support is first class and the conf.d system is excellent.
5. U/Kubuntu - I installed this on my laptop because there is no way I want to compile everything on it. I first tried Breezy/Dapper, it was a horrific nightmare of an installation. I took 3 days setting up a remote machine to host the install medium and then I had to reinstall because Dapper was broken on a fresh install (there was a dodgy kernel at the time). I am not too happy with it but since I spent so long installing it I will stay with it. The apt-get system is nice but it is not perfect, the graphical tools make you want to learn all the apt-get commands by heart. I still have loads of packages 'held back' - I dont know what that means and I am not too bothered. In my opinion packages in Ubuntu tend to be rushed out and updates can break things (probably better these days - although I am not rushing to upgrade to fiesty)

Like I said, its all my opinion, distros are very personal things, it can even depend on your hardware, some distros just dont like some people.

[wfarr]

RPM Hell died about the same day Yum was born. ;)

Now instead of all that inane dependency hell from before, they have a nice system that functions much like apt. ;)

Plus, being as I'm no way, shape, or form using a 64 bit processor (sadly), Gentoo doesn't present anything overly entrancing to me.

[giancarlo]

ive used suse 9.3 10.0 and 10.2 then ive tried fedora 6,(i had fedora 5 but i didnt use it for too long), the yum install was very effective, but i have a problem when running init 3. It was something to do w cpu frequency, im using AMD64 3500+, and now im back to suse 10.2:D