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Re: Giving up on Fedora 9



 On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:34:53 -0400 
David Kramer <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> Too many problems with the new XWindows stuff and the new KDE version. 
> Not interested in debugging it any more.  It's just not ready for prime 
> time. 
> 
> I've always looked curiously at Kubuntu, but it's so different.  I know 
> the package manager is DEB instead of RPM, and you can't log in as root, 
> you use sudo instead (by default).  If I were to switch, what are the 
> other big differences I would see? 
> 
> I guess enough time has gone by that I should consider SUSE again.  How 
> does that compare to Fedora (not just what's better or worse, but what's 
> different)? 
> 
> I always have the option of reinstalling Fedora 8, which has the added 
> advantage of being what's on my server, so I can maintain both more easily. 


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