Originally posted by: Hyperblaze
Just to change the tune a bit, I'd recommend Fedora Core.
Originally posted by: drag
Fedora core generally has slightly newer stuff.
When picking out a distribution it's kinda important to find ones that match your own sensibilities about things. Everybody has different policies about stuff... Most people will end up trying a few different distributions until they find the one they like.
Originally posted by: M00T
Bleeding edge? That's gentoo, hands down.
Stability, ease of use and moderately new packages... ubuntu.
Originally posted by: DarkThinker
Originally posted by: drag
Fedora core generally has slightly newer stuff.
When picking out a distribution it's kinda important to find ones that match your own sensibilities about things. Everybody has different policies about stuff... Most people will end up trying a few different distributions until they find the one they like.
That's all true. IMHO Fedora is a linux distro that is bleeding edge to the max but still a solid one. Tell you what, go https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-March/msg00003.html">here</a> download the Fedora 7 test 3 CD and give it a shot, you will like it and I am sure of it
Current version is Fedora Core 6, but Fedora 7 will be released May 24th
DarkThinker
Fedora has more things like better SELinux support, stateless Linux, Fedora LDAP server, and other things like that.
Originally posted by: Sunner
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back then the entire system pretty much felt significantly more sluggish than Ubuntu.
Right.... and last time I tried to install a stable Ubuntu it failed to install on 7 different systems which is one of the main reasons I went with Fedora back then and now I still like it more, but that doesn't make my argument worth much does it?
And how is Fedora bloated I don't get it?
Well, that and YUM sucks compared to APT
YUM was much slower than APT and now is only a bit slower than APT, yet that doesn't mean YUM doesn't have it's own advantages over APT too.
And if someone likes APT so much they can have that on Fedora right next to YUM and in addiiton to Synaptics package manager if they like.
It wouldn't hurt you to give Fedora 7's live cd / install cd a shot and update that info of your's a bit
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Fedora has more things like better SELinux support, stateless Linux, Fedora LDAP server, and other things like that.
In otherwords it's a testbed for things that RH is looking to add to RHEL in the future...
Why not? Is that supposed to be a bad thing?