How do you know?

Markus Huber humarfedoralists at yahoo.de
Thu Jan 6 17:07:15 UTC 2005


Maciej R. wrote:

> I wanted to ask why you are using 'Fedora' and not for example 'Suse' or
> 'Debian'? What is the reason for choosing 'Fedora'?

As a user and non techie with a background of 17 years of MS-OSs I 
swapped to Linux - mainly because I was pissed off with all those 
vulnerabilities and viruses - I tried Linux about a year ago and chose 
RH9 and then FC1. Why?

1.
With Debian based distributions I was never able to connect to the 
internet and never found out how to through DSL (at least here in 
Hungary) - be it Knoppix, Gnoppix, Ubuntu: I am too stupid for that.

2.
I tried SuSE 9.1 pro (bought it) on the desktop and it installed fine 
and I could connect to the internet, but ... well ... it's a bit ugly 
compared to RHL and FC - and for me it is important that I like the 
fonts and the icons (warning: very personal viewpoint :).

More of a reason: I tried SuSE 9.1 pro on my HP zd7000 notebook and 
could not get the 1440x900 screen working (same modeline as in Fedora). 
So it is not usable.

And maybe I do not like the approach that you get all the goodies and 
non-open-stuff only when you buy a pro-version. It's a bit too much 
dependency on one company (very personal viewpoint).

I bought and tried SuSE once but it could not satisfy my needs and did 
not have the high aesthetical standards as I was used from RH 9 and FC.

3.
RH 9 and then Fedora worked always out of the box and it is beautiful 
(fonts, icons, and I like Bluecurve). For all issues I had I found 
solutions either through the Red Hat documentations or through Google 
searches (mainly from this list and that's why I am a subscriber to this 
list.

> If you had a choice
> between 'Suse 9.2 Professional - DVD Edition' and 'Fedora Core 3 on DVD'
> what would you do?

Try both but I think I would stick to FC3. It's a more open project, 
through extra and alternative repositories one can get so many nice 
applications (and I learnt how to set preferences through apt, so I 
usually do not have issues with mixing repositories).

And it is still a beauty and I am not getting tired when I use it at 
work on the notebook and at home (and I read quite a lot on the screen).

Summary:
RHL and Fedora worked for me always out of the box from day one on any 
box, I liked it and it is so powerful but also easy to use so that I was 
able to replace Windows totally within six months (then I felt able 
enough to kick the Win2000 hd ... I did not need the "security net" 
anymore).

-- 
Regards
Markus Huber




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