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20040206: Linux
>From: Dan Vietor <devo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Organization: Unisys
>Keywords: 200402062306.i16N6Kp1005892 Linux Fedora
Hi Dan,
>I'm a bit tired of falling behind the learning curve here.
Join the group :-(
>I just recently bought a $600 HP system with an 80GB disk and have
>loaded it with 4 Linux releases. I have Red Hat Pro Workstation (RHEL
>3.0), Red Hat 9, SuSE 9.0 and Fedora. Boy, Fedora just didn't want to
>install... Maybe I can throw a version of Mandrake and Gentoo on there
>as well. ;-)
Hmm... We had doing an upgrade from RedHat 7.3 to Fedora Core 1, but
not in doing full installations.
>I know you were using Fedora at the show but I wanted to get your feel
>as to whether the move to Fedora has the community thinking of going to
>another Linux distribution.
What I see is a fracturing of our Linux community. Those that already
went with Debian and SuSE seem to be fat and happy. Those that went
with Slackware havn't made a sound. The rest of the set of Unidata
Linux users were on RedHat, and, quite frankly, I have not been able to
get a good reading of where they seem themselves going. We decided to
try out Fedora, and since it is essentially RH 10, have not seen any
reason to bail .. yet.
>From what I see of Fedora, it looks like an
>updated version of RH 9 and little else.
That was our impression as well.
>I am quite impressed with the
>number of packages available to SuSE. Some of the tools and KDE apps
>seem to be a year or two ahead of their equivalent Gnome apps in terms
>of functionality and maturity.
The problem I have with KDE is that McIDAS does not run correctly under
KDE, but it does under Gnome. Go figure!
>I can see where KDE vs Gnome has become something of a religious war.
I just use what works with the least amount of pain.
>I'm currently working on integrating Gempak into our NOAAPORT solution.
>Fun, fun...
That shouldn't be that hard. PDI already offers GEMPAK with their
NOAAPORT stuff.
>Back to working on Fedora.
What problem do you have installing Fedora?
Cheers,
Tom
