Fedora 9 - not bad not bad

[Ronnie Gauthier]

On Monday 29 September 2008 05:33:09 am Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 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.
>

I just did a box with open suse 11.0 and was glad I used KDE 3.5 instead of 4 
after I started digging in the forums. It seems they(KDE developers) went 
after eye-candy instead of substance. But overall I give opensuse 11.0 good 
marks.

Ronnie