Intrepid LiveCD vs Fedora 10 LiveCD

[measekite]

In my quest to find an upgrade to Feisty shortly I ran both Intrepid and Fedora 10 liveCDs for a while.

While I have been an Ubuntu user for 2 years and parftial to this forum and Ubuntu documentation and support I did not have a good experience with Intrepid. What follows are some short comments on each.

Intrepid LiveCD
Intrepid performed slow for a liveCD implementation. Intrepid did not install the appropriate resolution for my GForce 6600 nvidia card and I was left with very large fonts making it difficult to do very much. When I issued the commands to install the recommended nvidia driver the machine locked up. This is not improvement from what I went thru in Feisty.

The User and Groups did not behave correctly. After adding a few users I went to add them to some groups. When I check a couple of users adding them to a group the check marks did not sustain until I totally left the applet and then returned. This does not happen doing the same with Fedora.

The menu system was very much the same or similar to Feisty. I really do not see a whole lot of improvement that was visual. And of course the colors are the same and not to my liking.




Fedora 10 LiveCD

Fedora booted from the LiveCD faster and the OS ran much faster even from the liveCD. The drivers for my nvidia card installed automatically on boot up and with the correct resolution. The fonts were very nice.

The menu system was much more polished than Intrepid. I was really surprise because I thought Ubuntu was the leader in Open Source Linux and Fedora lagged behind but not based on my short experience.

The GUI package manager function OK and it seemed that most of the major applications were there. The desciptions of what they are made more sense to me.

The printer instlalled properly and all function worked like they were supposed to except for Gimp. I had to install Gutenprint and a ppd file to get it to work like it does now in Feisty. I did not test it but will before I make a go if I choose Fedora.

The applet for Users and Groups was more advanced and much nicer than Intrepid and worked flawlessly. It is easier to read and use and is much more straight forward.

Still Have Not Decided

I am looking for reasons to stay with Ubuntu but I cannot seem to find enough based on my knowledge of Linux. I only know what I see.

I would like to know what others think of these two. I do not want to consider other distros.

It just seems Fedora is more polished but the consensus of most Linux users is with Ubuntu. I am trying to find out why. Maybe that was based on the past and not the current I do not know.

Comments please

[MikeTbob]

It just seems Fedora is more polished but the consensus of most Linux users is with Ubuntu. I am trying to find out why. Maybe that was based on the past and not the current I do not know.

In my opinion, Fedora is a better distro, but the reason Ubuntu is the #1 distro is because it's very "newbie friendly".

[jayd512]

I am looking for reasons to stay with Ubuntu but I cannot seem to find enough based on my knowledge of Linux. I only know what I see.

I would like to know what others think of these two. I do not want to consider other distros.

It just seems Fedora is more polished but the consensus of most Linux users is with Ubuntu. I am trying to find out why. Maybe that was based on the past and not the current I do not know.

The general opinion does seem to favour Ubuntu, and for good reason. It's designed to be very easy to use, and has good support and documentation.

In my opinion, Fedora is a better distro, but the reason Ubuntu is the #1 distro is because it's very "newbie friendly".

I gotta agree with ya, Mike. I happen to think Fedora is just a bit easier to get going.

[elija]

I would have to say Ubuntu.

Fedora is the only distro ever to give me dependency errors when installing updates. Nasty and probably carbon interface errors but give me something that mostly works any day!

[stef4001]

Try Ultimate edition 2.0 and you will stay with ubuntu 8.10 because its based on
it.( but much better )
Other wise try Mint6 for user friendliness everything works out of the box even playing DVD divx mp3 everything (also based on ubuntu 8.10)
this one is very good when you have now internet connection available.
i tried mandriva, opensuse, PClinuxOS, ....
And for me these ar the winners.
Greetz and have funn.

[L4Linux]

Fedora is by far the most innovative OS. Whatever is developed in Fedora influences not only Linux, but all other Oses as well (see Plymouth).
But I still recommend Ubuntu to newbies, because it is really easy to install video/wireless drivers, flash, codecs. I recommend Fedora to anyone who feels comfortable with Linux.
The only drawback of Fedora is that YUM is much slower than Ubuntu/Debian APT.