Fedora 9 - not bad not bad

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 20:59 +1000, James McDonald wrote:
> I have been a Ubuntufile for a while. But just installed Fedora 9 and I 
> must say that it's quite good. Although it misses a few of the 'it just 
> works' features of Ubuntu i.e. My HP PSC1610 had to be manually 
> configured whereas Ubuntu does it automagically and although Ubuntu 
> borrows system-config-printer from Redhat they actually do it better.
> 
> The Fedora experience however, is really actually quite good. Meaning 
> I'm going to run it as my every day OS for a while.
> 
> I tried Suse 11 recently but well, KDE4 has shifted it's paradigm into 
> Click --> Click --> Click --> finally an action territory. So Suse for 
> me was a let down.

KDE4 on SUSE 11 is, well, KDE4. Not a SUSE situation. openSUSE uses KDE3
as the preferred desktop over KDE4. They included KDE4 as more of a
teaser to show what it is up to. They even tell this in the place you
can choose the default desktop in the install.

Does Fedora/KUbuntu have a more developed KDE4 than KDE themselves?

> You know there are problems with a distribution by reading forums and 
> finding the true believers in a product are spending a lot of time 
> having to mentally construct Camelot out of a pig-sty.

The discussions on the SUSE group are mainly saying that SUSE should
have simply left KDE4 out as it is not really ready for prime time. In
SUSE's defense, KDE3 is still the desktop they suggest you use. KDE4 is
a technology preview.

> Anyway Fedora 9 thumbs up.

I will have to have a look. I installed a few OSs on my iMac this past
weekend (vBox). Just to keep abreast of what is going on. I will add
Fedora 9. Am I missing something, or is openSolaris a mystery. It is
just a GNOME desktop. I am guessing all the interesting bits are under
the hood. If they are anywhere.

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