Fedora Coverstory in Linux Format

[BILL SMITH]

agreed,then  FC6 rocks baby.

On 11/16/06, CroombeFP <croombefp at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> More fuel for the present conflagration over Ubuntu and Fedora.
>
> I see that most of the problems with different distros are associated
> with what the user expects coupled with the selection of peripherals and
> so on on ones system. Like many others I have tried several distros at
> various times including : Mandrake 8.0, 9.0, 10.1 and Mandriva, Ubuntu,
> Knoppix, Damn Small Linux, Suse 9 and 10, Fedora Core 3, 4, 5, and now
> 6. Of all of them, the only ones which installed sweetly and found all
> the peripherals were Mandrake/Mandriva and Fedora. Due to some personal
> requirements, I have found that Fedora suits me best. My "permanent"
> installation has been FC3, then 4, 5 and now 6. None of the others
> provided me with exactly what I wanted and some distros seemed so very
> intractable when it came to the install process and particularly setting
> up my ADSL and Ethernet LAN. Fedora sets it all up without even asking!
>
> The only other minor difference I found is that it was very hard to get
> my Samsung CLP-500 color laser working properly despite Samsung claiming
> on the box that it was compatible with Linux. Under FC5 I had to call in
> a friendly Linux guru who took a couple of hours to get it working. When
> I went to FC6 a couple of days ago, I downloaded the Xerox Phaser 6000
> driver (having been told that it worked better than the Samsung one) and
> within 10 minutes had the printer working OK. On the other hand, an
> experimental install of Mandriva allowed this printer to be set up
> quickly. FC6 even goes as far as to not recommend this model due to the
> inadequacy of the provided driver (the Samsung driver clobbers cups and
> several other daemons).
>
> So, all in all, despite them all being labeled << Linux >> each flavor
> of distro seems to have its own little quirks which render it suitable
> or otherwise for any particular instance.
>
> Croombe F. Pensom
>
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