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>From: Dan Vietor <address@hidden> >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