Fedora 7

I prefer it as a desktop to Ubuntu, but I'm more used to RedHat on servers. New release usually means the sites get hammered (it's on slashdot, presumably), go down or work sporadically. The torrents are a bit hit and miss, I'd just wait a day or two.
 
I like Ubuntu best, but Fedora Core is a strong second favourite.

I really like the GUI (I saw it on a friend's install of Fedora Core 6) for multiple monitors. If only Ubuntu would adopt this. :p

I'm downloading Fedora Core 7 at the moment (at 50kbps :p [BT Broadband in the suburbs]). But it will take a long time.

Angus Higgins
 
My experience from Fedora 1 all the way to Fedora 6 in commercial and server environment? Really bad and short lived distro support, once new distro version is shipped no one touches previous versions, there are often security holes of a size of Albania left untouched, or, best case scenario - left to random private people putting together dodgy rpms for literally half of the world. Completely unreliable and buggy major version upgrades, there is no certainty you'll ever see other side when upgrading from version 5 to 6, let alone from 1 to 6, like I had opportunity to do few times this year. Very flaky software updates, often breaking stuff despite being released as stable plus often unrealistically slow bug fix releases - sometimes hacks are ready for weeks before boys at fedora start moving their rpms around.

Where redhat compatibility is a must and distro swap is possible I roll out Centos these days. 100% RHEL compatibility, reliable (as far as redhats go) and no nasty surprises so far.
 
I have been running Fedora for a long time now, I have dabbled with Ubuntu but always came back to Fedora.. I have a FC6 install under VMWare too for testing, so I will run the upgrade and see how it goes :)
 
I run Fedora as my primary desktop at work, and have done since FC3. Not had any major issues myself and has always been a stable and usable system - not found any reason to change. I do agree that it can be a bit flaky on the upgrade and maintainance side - having to use 3rd party repos like livna and one-off rpm 'patches' to get a fully-fledged system up and running.

Having said that, we don't run it on any servers - that's down to CentOS, Slackware etc. I don't think I'd trust it as a server platform. At home, I use Ubuntu and do find it quite superior to Fedora for a 'home' desktop.
 
Angus-Higgins said:
Sorry about that, I am not really up-to-date with the Fedora Project; I am more familiar with Ubuntu.

Angus Higgins
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No worries, just joking. The Fedora group seem to have removed the "Core" bit so I'm just enforcing it for them. :D

I've not really used Ubuntu before but the first ever Linux distro I used was Fedora Core 3 at Uni so I kind of like to stay loyal and see what that is like. But what with Dell selling Ubuntu PCs and Internet sites bigging up Ubuntu and my cousin saying he thinks Ubuntu is good I'll probably stick with that. Course when I build my Linux box I'll aim to dual-boot between Fedora 7 and Ubuntu.
 
Downloaded this last night, will be giving it a go today :)
Will have to see if the ati drivers work with this as ive not had 3d for about 6 months thanks to ATI's crappy drivers
Im not holding much hope
 
LizardKing said:
Downloaded this last night, will be giving it a go today :)
Will have to see if the ati drivers work with this as ive not had 3d for about 6 months thanks to ATI's crappy drivers
Im not holding much hope
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Can you let us know how that goes? I'm quite new to this Linux lark so when I get Fedora/Ubuntu running I'll be wanting to know how to do this kind of stuff.
 
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