Linked by Christian Paratschek on Tue 23rd Nov 2004 07:56 UTC
For this article, I chose to take a slightly different approach than the standard "Linux distribution review". As I have written not just one, but two reviews of Fedora Core 2 for this site, I want to base my review of Fedora Core 3 on my experiences with its direct predecessor. Update: FC3 shots here.
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I have played with Ubuntu and Fedora Core 3 quite a bit for the last week or two. I had some annoying problems with Fedora:
1.) Pain installing the nVidia drivers, requiring a workaround (disabling the x-server during bootup and making symlinks for nvidia /dev entries in /etc/udev/devices).
2.) Pain finding repositories that were up to date for FC3, so I could install the missing packages that make a Linux desktop usable (some packages were much much harder to find for Fedora than they were for Ubuntu).
3.) Annoying bugs (java crashing firefox, no sound in mozilla mplayer plugin, etc.) I never did get java working in Firefox using FC3.
Ubuntu had none of these major headaches, largely due to the superior quality of the repositories for it.
In fact, using this wiki, Ubuntu was relatively painless when it came to setting up multimedia stuff:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/RestrictedFormats/view?searchterm=f...
Redhat really needs to have some kind of supplemental restricted or non-free repository that works better with Fedora. They also need to cut down on the annoying bugs. It is a shame, because there were many other things about Fedora that I really liked.
For now however, Ubuntu is just way less of a hassle.