Comments on: Fedora Core 6 vs Ubuntu 6.10

By: Affix

Affix — Mon, 07 May 2007 10:12:39 +0000

Fedora Core is the Only linux distribution I recommend to any one. I love the way it handles applications and its clean interface.

By: McLinux

McLinux — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:32:42 +0000

All the crumbling of FC6 vs Ubuntu 6.10 doesnt hold any meaning when any of them fail at understanding the underlying hardware. I have a fairly recent hardware and Ubuntu just failed identifying the harddisk on the other hand FC6 just worked. I eventried the latest version of Ubuntu but with no success.

By: Pava

Pava — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:52:46 +0000

Can someone help me out with a high res driver for vmware on FC6, recently installed FC6 on VMWare workstation 5.5.3 and can only get 800×600. As far as i know it is not possible to use the host operating system’s display driver directly

Thx

By: David Tenser

David Tenser — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:08:24 +0000

Yogesh, sorry but I’m not an expert at those things. I would advice you to post about it in the relevant forum instead of this personal blog.

By: Yogesh

Yogesh — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:41:16 +0000

This is not a comment. But I recently switched from windows to Linux. I am using the Ubuntu 6.10 on a DEll Inspiron 630m laptop. As such everything is working fine but there is a problem with the ethernet connection. Its very unstable. it goes on off continuously and most of the time its off only. There’s no problem with the device since its working fine on windows. And also my wireless, bluetooth, etc are working perfectly fine on Ubuntu. I ve attached the lspci output and the log that the system generates continuously when the ethernet connections get disconnected.

lspci output
Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 01b5
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR-

SYSTEM LOG
Feb 22 00:11:32 dillu dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
Feb 22 00:11:37 dillu dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
Feb 22 00:11:44 dillu dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
Feb 22 00:11:51 dillu dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
Feb 22 00:12:01 dillu dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
Feb 22 00:12:11 dillu dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
Feb 22 00:12:18 dillu dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
Feb 22 00:12:32 dillu dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1
Feb 22 00:12:33 dillu dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
Feb 22 00:12:33 dillu dhclient: Trying recorded lease 10.93.253.8
Feb 22 00:12:36 dillu dhclient: No working leases in persistent database – sleeping.
Feb 22 00:16:11 dillu dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
Feb 22 00:16:17 dillu dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
Feb 22 00:16:32 dillu dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21
Feb 22 00:16:53 dillu dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
Feb 22 00:17:03 dillu dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
Feb 22 00:17:12 dillu dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
Feb 22 00:17:12 dillu dhclient: Trying recorded lease 10.93.253.8
Feb 22 00:17:15 dillu dhclient: No working leases in persistent database – sleeping.

I would be very grateful if you could help me out in this

By: Ess

Ess — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:19:11 +0000

I agree with your comments. I have been using Fedora since the release of FC4. It took me sometime to get used to working in Linux….eventually, I got used to it and got accustomed to installing new software etc. However, recently a friend of mine recommended Ubuntu…so I decided to give it a test drive by installing it on a VMWare workstation. It took me less than a week to decide to switch over to Ubuntu. Personally, I think it is the best distribution of Linux at the moment, and the most user friendly as well. I install Ubuntu on my laptop (Dell INSPIRON 6000) and everything works out of the box.

Thanks,
Ess

By: Edward

Edward — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:40:50 +0000

Hi,

In regards to your Dell,
If you look in the install of FC6 your find there is a option for supporting your Dell in ‘Hardware Support’ I forget where it is though but next time have a better look when doing the install…

I think Fedora need to work harder on making things more ’stable’ in turns of the ‘big’ bugs but they dev so fast though. Basicly they need more dev !

*Another thing that goes out to mostly all Linux distros is, more hardware support out the box !!!*

This is SOOO important if Linux is going to get to the desktop !

Thanks,
Edward.

By: Bud

Bud — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:27:55 +0000

I’ve used FC6 for a few days at home, and now I’m typing this using Ubuntu 6.10 at work. Because they are both Gnome-based, there really are very few differences between them from a day-to-day user perspective–Gnome is, well, Gnome. Ubuntu decided to go with a few more updated apps, like Firefox 2.0 (pretty weird having Ubuntu not recognized by it’s spelling checker!) and Gaim 2.0Beta, but that is about it.

From an admin standpint, apt-get for Ubuntu works well, and is a lot quicker than yum for Fedora. As far as graphical equivalents, Synaptic is much superior to Yum Extender. Getting multimedia was easier for Ubuntu since they have the packages needed listed on their website and enabling the needed repos in Synaptic was easy. For Fedora, Google-ing was necessary, and somewhat hit-or-miss, but http://www.fedorafaq.org helped out, even though it hasn’t been updated for FC6 yet.

Big picture: This is a great time to be a Linux user! FC6, Ubuntu 6.10, OpenSUSE 10.1 (except for their package update problems–now fixed), plus others are all great, free options that work well at the desktop or server levels. Everyone should enjoy.

–Bud

By: Ganesha Bhaskara

Ganesha Bhaskara — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:28:49 +0000

I was using FC since its first release. As more stuff started creeping in, the distro has gotten slower, buggier and harder to use. A simple suspend to ram was broken for most of the lifecycle of FC5. I switched to FC6 test* and was pretty impressed with it. After seeing repeated release delays, update problems and still unpolished desktop integration and finally switched to Ubuntu Edgy-Eft. I am extremely impressed with Ubuntu, especially with the desktop integration and ease of adding/removing and updating programs. I hope FC developers give more importance to usability in the subsequent releases.

Ganesha

By: Martin Fleming

Martin Fleming — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:59:53 +0000

Its seems you are a bit negative towards fedora. I dont remeber the last time i installed ubuntu and everything worked out of the box. You have to install sshd, vncserver, nfs etc to get ubuntu to operate efficiently on a home network.

Fedora on the other hand is a power distro that makes configuring the system to your needs a lot more flexible.

Granted, its not perfect but with experiencing ubuntu and running mostly fedora machines in my office, i dont think Ubuntu is anywhere near the standard of fedora, its just been made easier for newbies