A Mandriva user kicks around Fedora Core 10: How does it compare?
This week’s TechMail is A Mandriva user kicks around Fedora Core 10: How does it compare? (not the title I chose, but I guess my editor figured it needed my “flare”). Basically talks about my first impressions of using Fedora 10, considering I’ve more or less exclusively used Mandriva for the last 9+ years, and F10 was my first Fedora install since FC3 or thereabouts. It’s amusing to read some of the comments (not a lot there yet, but…). At any rate, it’s an honest (yet short) look at how I found F10 to be after using Mandriva for so many years.
Rodger
I gave Fedora 10 a spin for a couple of weeks. Installation was perfect and got used to packagekit quiet easily. Found rpmfusion and installed the additional repositories. Overall like yourself, I found it easy to configure.
The problems I ran into came down to more a lack of quality when it came to package building. I had major audio output issues. Sound quality was poor. I had all the gstreamer plugins installed. My favourite media banshee build was terrible. Once I added the media to banshee and shutdown the system it would not play audio and came up with gstreamer errors. When I used rhythmbox thats when I got furtner sound quality issues.
All other aspects were ok. system-config-printer would not work straight away and had to install printers via cups in the browser.
Fedora 10 is an OK release for but Mandriva 2009 seems to just have better quality when it comes to packaging and overall configuration.
It was nice to try something else for a while. Hope things improve on the Fedora front.
Feb 15, 2009 @ 15:44:53