Fedora is good, but ...

[Karl Dyson]

<snip>
I did have a go at a LFS (Linux From Scratch), but
God knows what kind of build environment you need for that thing. On
four different distos (with three different gcc's/binutils/fileutils) I
couldn't make (literally) it even half way through.

So Fedora it is then.
</snip>

You might want to try Gentoo (www.gentoo.org). I built a Linux From Scratch, and it seemed to work OK, but I'd have spent all my time updating and patching. Gentoo works well for me.......

Cheers,

Karl

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith G. Robertson-Turner
[mailto:redhat-forums at genesis-x.nildram.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:12 PM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Fedora is good, but ...


... but nothing.

It rocks!

I had some initial teething problems, such as:

Firstboot and that python XFree configurator script didn't allow me to
manually specify my VGA card's memory (unlike RH9), so I ended up with a
very small desktop. No setting for this in rh-conf-xf86 either. Easy fix
though, by editing XF86Config.

NVidia/MESA/PAM conflicts. Once again, I've fixed this on Linux boxes so
often now, I can do it in my sleep. There *has* to be a long term
solution to this mess.

My own impatience at not having an easy RPM for Mozilla 1.6a :) Well I
eventually found a 1.5 RPM and I just pulled 1.6a out of CVS for
testing.

Weird rhn applet problems. So for now it seems up2date can't redirect to
the fedora urls, and there's still that legacy rhn authentication stuff
going on that prompts you to register. Easy fix for the former, but the
latter requires too much messing about with python for me to bother. Fix
yer scripts guys.

Well I've been on RH systems forever, so I got a bit of a shock when the
final "goodbye" message came through from Red Hat. I (very briefly)
considered moving to another distro, but after trying recent releases of
Suse, Debian and Mandrake, I was firmly reminded of why I have never
done so before ... yeeeuk! The only one that doesn't make me feel like
I've travelled back to the stone age in a time machine, is Suse. Suse is
pretty good, I suppose, but it's so ... so ... *green*. :) Anyway,
there's that whole Novell (we will assimilate) thing and I just felt a
bit nervous about it. I did have a go at a LFS (Linux From Scratch), but
God knows what kind of build environment you need for that thing. On
four different distos (with three different gcc's/binutils/fileutils) I
couldn't make (literally) it even half way through.

So Fedora it is then. The way forward, and ... stuff.

It's fast, efficient and stable (I love NPTL), in fact much more so than
RH9, which surprises me considering this is fairly bleeding edge (It's
even got OOo1.1 and Gnome 2.4 - not even Suse 9 has both of those out of
the box).

So yup, I love it, but if there was one feature I'd ask for, it's this:

It doesn't make my coffee. I feel this is an essential feature, and that
you should all be killed by the "Free Software Foundation Death Squad"
for omitting it. Shame on you :)

[H]omer



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