So I haven't written in awhile. But I have been on a distro hunt. After a recent disagreement in the #ubuntu and #ubuntu-ops channels, Ive decided that Ubuntu is not the distro for me. (Ubuntu I still love you for what you are, but you are not the stable desktop Im looking for.)
That said I have recently tried just about everything. Tried Mandriva, didn't like it. Tried debian, opensuse, opensolaris and fedora in VMs. All of which werent exactly a pleasing exp in a vm. So I tried fedora. I installed fedora 9 on a differnt work machine. This machine had the Intel Vx-t virtual machine helper intergreated on the VPRO processor.
VM performance on this machine, excelent. Fedora exp over all...Not so great. If anyone has used Fedora in the past, they know of rpm.livna.org. This is a repository that estentially gives you everything you expect from a modern OS (mp3 support for example). But inconviently the build server for livna is having issues, thus packages you would want, like nvidia drivers, fail to download and install. (Recently found out about yum install akmod-nvidia, thanks to this blog.) But since that machine is a work machine I'm not worried about those issues. After struggling with Virtualbox and virtual host networking I eventually did switch to the Fedora desktop as my main machine (had write my own script to get host networking to work). That said, sound does not work and mp3 support still does not work either. But, with that said... I tried fedora 9 at home, mp3 support and sound works. (Tried KDE4, and its borked after trying to install a widget, I have the worst luck with KDE4)
In the end, I am happy with fedora but its not perfect. What man made OS is?
I have been really likeing Chrome on a slightly different subject. With all the talk about the 'browser replaceing the os' things are exciting. But lets be realistic, that isnt going to happen. I am however glad to see yet another step towards operating task enviornments. (Comment, if you want to discuss the thought farther).
Anyway, BYE!!
Saturday, September 27, 2008
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I'm curious what you didn't like about Mandriva. (It's subjective, and depends on your machine - but I'm just curious.)
I'm about to upgrade to Mandriva 2009.0 - Gnome, as I don't particularly like KDE. And I'll be adding the LXDE desktop, which is supposed to integrates nicely and gives a lightweight alternative, rather than having to commit to lightweight upfront.
Its been awhile now, but I didnt like the gnome setup, and didnt like the package manager. Installed kde from the gnome version and when kde loaded up. Had a white screen of death. And I felt that it was a very 'bleeding edge' distro, which is exactly the opposite of what I was looking for in a distro.
I did the same thing you did (distro hopping) for my laptop. I've finally gotten Ubuntu to work (yay) but I must say I was most happy with OpenSuse and it's many choices of software.
I was happy with Mandriva, but it seemed slow.
I probably won't switch distros now that I have Ubuntu installed.
Amy
You should try Arch-linux. Needs some hands on, but Wiki explanation are very clean. Best distribution for me, for the power of and flexibility of its packaging system. Keeps original application spirit.
Ive thought about trying arch, im still kinda happy with fedora. Im actually using kde4 strangely enough. Less than four months ago I was not happy with kde4 at all.
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