[Tfug] Well it's back to Ubuntu...

[arizray at comcast.net]

I had an experience where F10 would not go beyond the gnome login using a live cd. Gave up and stuck with Ibex. I have SuSe 11 on a second drive to experiment with, still not as good as Ubuntu in my book. Updates are very cumbersome in comparison, printer driver options were sparse.

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Jim March" <1.jim.march at gmail.com>
> Fedora 10 had just too many stability issues.  Compiz was basically
> unusable (and I have a very simple Intel 965/FOSS driver video setup),
> an auto-update sent YUM/RPM into dependency hell (turns out it was a
> mistake on their end that broke *everybody*) and a few other
> annoyances.  If I can't trust it not to do anything colossally dumb on
> updates, then I can't install/support it for anybody else.
> 
> Learned some other things too:
> 
> * Network Manager 7 is used on both Ubuntu Intrepid and Fedora 10.  As
> it's a Red Hat project I expected it to work better in F10.  In one
> sense it did: in Ubuntu, I have to tweak settings at /etc/ppp/options
> to get my Verizon cellmodem working reliably while in F10 no tweaks
> were needed.  But the bigger NM7 issue relating to it forgetting WiFi
> passwords was equally boogered in both distros so there's something
> fundamentally hosed in NM7.  In Ubuntu Intrepid, Wicd 1.5.6 is out and
> works perfectly for those doing just WiFi and Ethernet, while
> replacing the network management functions in Fedora 10 is messier by
> far.
> 
> * Ubuntu's performance in disk-to-disk transfers (to/from external USB
> drives) is higher, by at least 1/4, but it also seems to hog more
> front-end performance (slowing down everything else while the transfer
> is going on).  Hard to say though, since I was comparing 64bit Fedora
> 10 with 32bit Intrepid (just loaded it).
> 
> * Ubuntu has fixed the headphone glitch in the last three weeks for
> Intel's HDA audio.  That had broken yet again.
> 
> Basically, "the grass isn't greener" in this case...and early reports
> on OpenSuse 11.1 involve some horror stories regarding stability.  All
> three are using basically the same parts (kernel version, Gnome
> version, Xorg stuff, etc.) and Ubuntu appears to be assembling the
> parts the best.
> 
> Jim
> 
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