mburns's Journal: What made Fedora your distro choice?

It's a matter of history. Red Hat, then Pink Tie and Fedora 1, worked fine on my Compaq Armada.

My white box, using a Via chip set with a 64 bit AMD processor, and which was retired in November 2010 after working since the summer of 2006, would only boot cold with Fedora or Windows 2000. I used Knoppix with a hot reboot to use video and the K desktop. But, when Fedora improved and I could download packages conveniently, I abandoned Knoppix and Debian hot rebooting.

Yum updating has the advantages of incremental package updates, and of an extra stage of prechecking installations to avoid certain manual repairs that can be precipitated by apt-get. The yum command line is not perfect though. Some command line options are sometimes needed to work around upgrade conflicts.

I am annoyed at the thought of the new Ubuntu desktop; it's all but proprietary. Gnome 3 is sweet but takes initial study to exploit. I do login to the xfdce desktop often on my Toshiba 11.6", so that problems and overhead with compositing can be avoided. My new black box with an i5 processor exhibits no problems with Fedora 15

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Michael J. Burns