Ditching ubuntu

[Meir Michanie]

On one of the boxes I installed Fedora 10. So far so good. 
It seems quite stable. 
I used livna in order to get all kind of rpm like skype with its
dependencies,...
installing the latest nvidia driver required some debugging ( adding glx
required to edit xorg.conf)
I still like ubuntu over fedora.
I jumped to ubuntu when Debian screwed it up with the release with kernel
2.6.8


> ----- Original Message -----
> Subject: Re: Ditching ubuntu
> From: Ehud Karni <ehud at unix.mvs.co.il>
> To: meirm at mail.riunx.com
> CC: linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il
> Date: 20-05-2009 22:25
> 
> 
> On Wed, 20 May 2009 18:21:01 Meir Michanie wrote:
> >
> > What do you think about using CENTOS with livna as a home desktop?
> > I want to install it and forget about it.
> > For Grandma, I need skype, im, flash, video camera.
> 
> It depends on your needs. If you want just some very common tasks -
> like browsing, spreadsheet etc, then you can use CentOS (I do).
> 
> Beware that many media application won't work, or you won't be able
> to install them with yum. Just last week I needed to rip a DVD, to
> my surprise there was a package for CentOS: DVDRIP-0.98.10-6.el5, I
> installed it just to find out it does not work. Googling around, I
> found it is a known problem but without a solution (the same package
> works on Fedora 10).
> 
> CentOS is very stable OS when used as server, not as media center.
> 
> For desktop use, I'll stick with Fedora, not necessarily the last one.
> You have about 1.5 years maintenance from the distribution of a new
> version. Fedora 11 will be available sometime in June.
> 
> Ehud.
> 
> 
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