Fedora 16

[petergriffin]

G'day! Why is f16 so crap? Is it because otherwise people wouldn't buy RHEL or are RH developers a bunch of m0r0ns?

 

[SueEllen]

Use another flavour of linux.

I do when I get pissed off with a distribution.

 

[Sysman]

G'day! Why is f16 so crap? Is it because otherwise people wouldn't buy RHEL or are RH developers a bunch of m0r0ns?

It looks as though I had a lucky escape. I thought I'd try it but came across this sort of stuff pretty quickly: Fedora forbidden items.

Fedora Suggests: Consider using a graphics adapter from Intel or any other manufacturer that provides full specifications or source code.

Nope, not going to happen. I ain't going to buy new hardware just because some pedant has a thing about proprietary software.

Meanwhile, off we go to openSUSE 12.1.

Installs beautifully, looks nice etc.

Out of the first 3 apps I wanted to do some serious work with:

• first one has 90% of the options I want to access greyed out
• second one has a very niggling prompt asking me if I have compiled it with the spell checker? Nope - grab source, recompile with/without spell checker. Still same annoying prompt.
• third one crashes shortly after launch

Boot to Gparted CD, zap partition, install Linux Mint.

 

[TheFaQQer]

Linux Mint FTW!

 

[d000hg]

G'day! Why is f16 so crap? Is it because otherwise people wouldn't buy RHEL or are RH developers a bunch of m0r0ns?

Just use Windows like everyone else.

 

[Spacecadet]

Just use Windows like everyone else.

Can't believe it took 5 posts before someone got the correct answer, I though this was an IT Contractors forum?

 

[russell]

Linux is a great server OS but Windows 7 kills it on the desktop.

 

[SueEllen]

Linux is a great server OS but Windows 7 kills it on the desktop.

There are reasons some of us have more than one operating system.

And if you have a low spec hardware you can't run Windows 7 unless you like rebooting frequently.

 

[petergriffin]

Just use Windows like everyone else.

No F way! I use other Linux distros and Netbsd for myself but I had to train for an interview and they run Crapora on both servers and clients. Eventually I settled for Centos and it works like a charm (I still wouldn't use it for myself though).

And then, I mean, Windows server side? Ho do you ssh into Windows?

EDIT: ... but I can see why Linux gets a bad name recently: Fedora, Ubuntu, Opensuse, flawed and bloated by default...

 

[Addanc]

openSUSE 12.1 is looking OK with KDE 4.7.

Windows 7 on modest hardware is appallingly slow; also needs re-boots.