Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 7.4
Posted by hatim
I have been busy as hell in the past few weeks. but I did find some time to install Fedra Core 6 and Ubuntu 7.4 on my home machine. The primary reason was just to try the thing out. I was expecting alot of new goodies since I last tried these out and my expectations were met. First thing which I was pleased to find was the correct automatic settings of X for my intel motherboard. Both of the X configurations in question were 3d enabled. Other things which impressed me was the new 'Desktop Effects' option of Gnome. With the integration of Beryl/Compiz componenets in Ubuntu and Fedora desktops, one can now have the same kind of eye candy which is only found on Vista or MacOS X.
Although new Fedora Core comes out in a few days, I will probably stick with Core 6 for the rest of summer. I have decided to stick with Ubuntu on my laptop for the followin reasons.
- What ever you do , there are still issues with products on fedora , which get easily installed on red hat entrprise linux. fedoa != red hat.
- Ubuntu has become a ditro of choice at many places including Google. It is also being preinstalled on Dell laptops, soon it will be on other laptops
- Ubuntu has server and 64-bit editions of their distribution (I even got 64-bit version CDs shipped this time)
- Last and most important, Ubuntu gets shipped free, no one can beat that.
