In other geekiness, I did try SuSE 9.1 Pro...very slick, very fast... ULB Gnome even joined this century with new packages for GNOME 2.8 for SuSE 9.1 including updated gaim, galeon, and mozilla. All great and good..except Galeon didn't want to run and I couldn't get anything to build. Drivel (the LiveJournal client I use) wouldn't build or work after being installed. There are a bunch of other issues as well with the printer not being supported quite right no matter what I did and some other things that just let a bad taste in my mouth.
I decided to go with Fedora Core 3 Test 2 for shits and giggles...very nice...fast and clean.
That is until...
I hit up2date to do the duty of upgrading any fixes, patches, etc...(notice it's a *TEST* release)
Yup...in one week, there were 404 packges to be updates for a total of 597MB.
I said screw that and reinstalled Fedora Core 2...yeah, it's 6 months old, but it's quite stable, there are several major sites that are apt-friendly, so I can just apt-get install/upgrade almost anything.
As for Fedora Core 3 (the next major release), it'll be very nice when it's done, finalized, and ready to roll. As for me, I'll hold back here on Core 2 until around oh...Yule. I'll let Core 3 have a couple of months to settle down and have the necessary patches/bugfixes/updates after it's 1 November release date.
Fedora Core Linux is coming along very nicely...but I remember now why I normally don't do distribution betas...hell...the last beta I did was KDE 3.3 betas and that was only because it fixed a couple of quirky bugs that irritated the daylights out of me in KDE 3.2...it was a learning experience. I wll say that...
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I've despised the whole Fedora concept personally.
I understand that Red Hat wants a "beta" software which they can add lots of things to, but it has just confused the corporate world and muddied the private world.
Example. At my work, my coworker was trying to get a Jabber server running. He was given Fedora Core 2 to use.
I suggested that since he didn't need/want a GUI to use FreeBSD instead.
He was told that Fedora was the "standard". WHAT?!? A beta software is standard but a hard-core secure stable OS like FreeBSD isn't allowed???
So, having said that... I love my FreeBSD box. :)
Ah, fond memories of Linux installs.....
Oops. There it is.
If I'd held out, I probably could have managed to solve all the dependency issues with SuSE and built what I needed to get built.
Actually Fedora works very well in spite of the fact it's a testbed for RedHat Enterprise Linux. It's not like going back to Slackware or Gentoo where you get to build the world from scratch.
FreeBSD is sadly falling well behind in terms of apps and supporting things. GNOME 2.8 isn't in ports yet..nor is KDE 3.3 or mozilla 1.7 or firefox 0.9.3 or much of anything else.
I'd love to be able to go with FreeBSD...but half the stuff I'd be using requires (gasp) the linux emulation libraries...what's the point? OpenOffice isn't native to FreeBSD yet...and I do *not* want to download and build KDE 3.3 from sources, nor X.org 6.8...
Don't even mention Solaris. I don't have a SparcStation sitting here.
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