Fedora beating me down... any distro suggestions?

[Josh Coffman]

--- June Tate <june at theonelab.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 09:11:43AM -0700, Josh
> Coffman wrote:
> >  Let me say first, I like Fedora if only for the
> fact
> > I've learned a lot getting it working on my
> laptop.
> > 
> >  I'd like a distro that will run well on my hp
> z5440
> > laptop, and is easy to update, and makes a good
> > desktop for non-techies. This weekend I went to
> > moviefone.com to check previews for some movies
> and it
> > wouldn't play any even though I have the mplayer
> > plugin installed in firefox. I don't mind solving
> > problems; actually I kinda like it. I just want to
> do
> > it all the time.
> 
> I have a similar laptop -- an HP ze4315us -- and
> have installed Ubuntu
> with no problems (aside from brain-damaged
> hardware). By far, I've
> found Ubuntu to be a cut above most distributions
> out there with
> regards to stability, ugpradability and usability.
> Since it's based on
> Debian, upgrading and maintaining it is simple --
> just apt-get update,
> apt-get dist-upgrade -u every once in a while, or
> just let the Ubutnu
> updater do all the heavy lifting for you. =o)
> 
> -- 
> June Tate * http://www.theonelab.com *

Ok, I've tried Ubuntu in the past and wasn't over
enamored with it. I didn't think it was bad. I just
found other KDE-based distros to have more intuitive
menus.... but I come from a heavy windows background
sooo.... (oh and yes I know about Kubuntu)

I'll try it again since I've been using Fedora 4 w/
Gnome for 2+ months. Yes, I do like Debian based
distros in general especially for Apt & Synaptic.
(Synaptic works on Fedora using apt4rpm, but be
careful  using it unless you don't want to use Yum at
all.)

Anyone used and compared Mepis to Ubuntu? (other than
gnome vs kde comparisons)

-j



		
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