OpenSuse 10.1 VS Fedora Core 5 (split from Re: OpenSUSE 10.1)

[Kenneth]

No experience with Suse here, but I only use Fedora due to requirements for
some contract work I do.  My problems with Fedora include the update (yum)
getting confused in several ways, and the installer sometimes hanging partway
through.  The yum confusion I've seen includes it suddenly claiming there's a
syntax or other sort of error in it's list of packages (so far always fixed
by yum clean all and then rerun the update), and sometimes deciding that all
the mirrors have bad copies of the files it's trying to download.

It seems like they leave out packages for some things I might want to use,
and I have to go other places to get.

Some day, when I have lots of free time, I'm going to try more distros. I
always leave a blank partition for that purpose, but never find the time.


--- Josh Coffman <josh_coffman at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>   Alan mentioned in another thread that OpenSuse has
> been a nice change from FC5 despite the update
> problems.
> 
>   I've been in the Fedora boat since I migrated
> (mostly) to linux last year. 
> 
>   I'm really curious how they compare, and what
> problems people have had with FC5.
> 
>   Suse was one of the distro's I was close to picking
> before going with FC. FC5 has been largely a big
> improvement from FC4 from my experience. It
> auto-detected pretty much everything on my HP laptop.
> Even the wifi works now thanks to the bcm43xx drivers.
> (NDISWrapper worked for me before bcm43xx.)
> 
>   What about OpenSuse 10.1 is worth dumping FC5? And
> what about waiting for FC6?
> 
> -j
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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