So should I switch to Debian ...

[Tim Wunder]

On Thursday 04 December 2003 8:09 pm, someone claiming to be James McDonald 
wrote:
> > http://userlinux.com/white_paper.html
> >
> > My doubts about the future of RH/Fedora grow by the day. It seems
> > everywhere I see evidence of some growing community consensus of a need
> > for a movement in the opposite direction.
>
> Umm I have a rh9 system onto which I put apt4rpm and included the fedora
> keyword in the sources.list file. I must say that the updating is
> effortless as long as you have a > ADSL connection.
>
> Can anyone that has installed fedora core tell me the main differences in
> their words of the fedora distribution as opposed to rh9? I have looked at
> the table redhat supplied and all I can tell is that fedora is put out
> more often and lacks any sort of certifications.

I installed Fedora as an upgrade to RHL 8.0. 

I used apt4rpm and up2date (the free, survey version) to keep the system 
updated with RHL 8.0 and use yum now. I've configured the livna.org 
repostiory as well as fedora core and fedora.us. 

Recently installed frozen-bubble with a simple 'sudo yum frozen-bubble' and 
got all the dependancies worked out and frozen-bubble installed in about 5 
minutes. Just updated my kernel for the recent security issue a couple days 
ago, no problems, yet.

The main issue I still have is that checkinstall doesn't seem to work anymore, 
but I haven't done much to work it out, either (other than 
recompile/re-install checkinstall, which didn't seem to work.)  Most of the 
apps I use work the same, apache, webcal, postnuke, gwc, kmail, firebird. Oh, 
there is one other problem... my preferred GUI sound recording app, 
gnome-sound-recorder, doesn't work anymore (a known bug) :-( 
I've taken to recording from my soundcard using sox and the command line (rec 
-t wav -r 44100 -s w -c 2 -v .8 <filename>.wav).

The main difference, though? I get access to updates without filling out a RH 
survey every X months.

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