[Coco] Ann: FUSE Support for Toolshed

[John W. Linville]

Forgive me for presuming that someone running RH8 might not exactly
be "keeping current" with current events in Linux.  :-)  If you are
already using Ubuntu, then you should know what you are getting.

A few thoughts:

FC3 came-out about 2.5 years ago, about the same time as the first
Ubuntu release.  So, you aren't really making a fair comparison.
FC6 is a more fair comparison to Ubuntu 6.10.

Upgrading RH8 directly to FC6 probably won't work.  Then again,
upgrading RH8 to Ubuntu probably won't work either. :-)

FC6 includes XFCE as an installation option, although you will have
to customize your installation choices if you want it.  Personally,
I think XFCE is too big for how crappy it is. :-)

Intalling any modern distro on a decrepit PC like you describe is
likely to cause heartache.  If you insist on using hand-me-down PCs,
then please do use Ubuntu.  :-)  Neither distro is likely to support
all your old ISA cards either...

FWIW, Red Hat employs more GNOME developers than Canonical does.
Make your own judgements as to what that implies for support and
cool features.

FWIW, only the first 2 CDs are required for a basic install of FC6.
If you want to do an over-the-network install, you only need to
download and burn a small boot image.  (This option actually works
pretty well at my house.)  And yum is quite useful for installing
any additional packages without dealing with RPM dependencies yourself.

So, I maintain that most of the positive press about Ubuntu is
from people who don't know the current state of the other distros.
The rest is from people that honestly thinking supporting proprietary
drivers is a positive move. :-(

Anyway, just don't buy the Ubuntu hype -- make an informed choice.
And as others have said, all of them are better platforms than Vista.

John

P.S.  I would apologize for an OT post, but OT seems to be more the
rule than the exception here lately...
-- 
John W. Linville
linville at tuxdriver.com