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[Felix Miata]

Maciej R. wrote:
 
> What is the reason for choosing 'Fedora'? If you had a choice
> between 'Suse 9.2 Professional - DVD Edition' and 'Fedora Core 3 on DVD'
> what would you do?

According to http://distrowatch.com/ page hit rankings, those two and
Mandrake constitute the top 3 distros. I have them all installed (plus
Xandros), but SuSE is the one I use most. A few comments:

FC:
1-https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107733 (keyboard)
2-non-standard use of Grub (grub.conf instead of menu.lst-PITA for
multibooters)
3-doesn't include HFPS support by default (Mandrake & SuSE do)
4-https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=141361 (RHL
Bugzilla awful)

Mdk:
1-Bugs. I can't believe how many bugs they find acceptable to have open
with each new release.
2-The GUI package management system interface is horribly designed.

Mdk has the best user support, SuSE the worst. If you don't have
broadband, you have to buy SuSE if you don't have anyone to borrow the
media from. User participation in FC & Mdk development are big pluses
missing from SuSE.
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