Hi, I currently use Mandrake 10.1 but since the company changed its name to "Mandriva" I am trying to find a good alternative to it. Yesterday I installed Fedora Core 3 (KDE) and it seems good, but it lacks a control center and a good RPM management system like Mandrake's.

I was wondering if FC4 is any better than FC3 at the two points mentioned above?

FC4 is considered to be less stable than FC3 with more bugs that need ironing out. I have personally encountered any, but that's me.

It doesn't have the multimedia support Mandrake has and requires a lot of downloading and tweaking to get it right. It's well documented out there on how to do it.

TrueType font support is superior to the way Mandrake handles it. It's a lot simpler to deal with.

As far as package managers go, yum is pretty good.

I agree, that Fedora needs a lot more tweaking than Mandriva to enable things such as multimedia etc. On the issue of truetype fonts, they perform the same from my personal experience.

They perform the same? Hehehe
You might want to help this guy out then.
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i suggest getting ubuntu it runs a lot better than the fedora projects and is a lot more stable

Fedora Core isn't intended for a newbie, or even a Linux user with just a little experience, due to the amount of tweaking needed to make it a complete desktop.

Other distros more oriented towards a full, easy desktop experience that I've played with are Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mepis, and Xandros.

YMMV, of course...

Hello im a new to linux i've been using it for only a week. I have SLAX Standard Edition v 5.0.6, SLAX KillBill Edition v 5.0.6, Red Hat Linux 9, and getting Slackware. I'm thinking of getting Fedora Core 4 or 3. I need help choosing Fedora or any other distro. I would like an os where i can download and install other programs that come seperate, and and actually being able to use the intallations (Celestia, etc.). I am a big file sharer( if you dont know what that is good) and want to use Limewire on the os anyone recommends, and an os that lets me use unlimited bandwidth.

Yep, just replied to the thread.

LinuxSeeker, Fedora does not have a control center like Mandriva and this does not seem like its going to change soon. As for package management they are working on a new tool called PUP, but I am not sure if its going to be as good as urpmi/rpmdrake. Suse has a lot features similar to Mandriva (e.g. YAST the control centre) so you may want to take a look at it. As for Ubuntu, it suffers similar problems to Fedora in my personal opinion. You have to do a lot of tweaking to get multimedia apps to work and lacks a control center like Mandriva and Suse. Another feature I dislike is that you can't customise the package selection during installation. The plus side of Ubuntu is that you can use apt to access a lot of extra packages in the Debian repositories.

I am no newbie, I have been using Linux for the past 3 years.

What I'm now trying to do, is to replace Mandrake (my main distribution) with another:

SuSE has some annoying bugs as well as ridiculous colours in most of its parts.
UBUNTU has Gnome and I don't like Gnome. Furthermore my 56k connection is too slow to download KUBUNTU...
Slax might be the best of all distros I tried. Unfortunately it is small (=>major configuration tools missing) and lacks RPM support (a huge disadvantage)
Fedora seems PERFECT but unfortunately does not have a control center and a good RPM management system...

I have tried others as well, but those mentioned above are the most suitable and yet not even one of them matches all my criteria...

I am not sure what bugs you mean in Suse, but as for the colors, they can be changed so you don't have to use the defaults.

People keep saying Fedora doesn't have a control centre. Do they mean an equivalent to drakconf? The reason I ask is that is have a Control Center on my menu list in FC4. Sure, it's KDE's Control Center (kcontrol), but it can config just about anything one may need. Or am I missing somethnig here?

They mean something like drakconf. You can't use kcontrol to administer everything on Fedora based distros. There is a mish mash of configuration apps, but they are not located in one central place like drakconf and yast.

First of all, I agree that Fedora DOES need a lot of tweaking to get it the way you want it to be.

Secondly, I also agree that there is no central "control center" in Fedora.

But, (and that's a big butt), Fedora comes with RedHat's very own signature configuration tools which make it easier, (if not the easiest) to configure your computer; e.g. system config mouse, system config network etc.

I use Fedora 3 as my main OS, and I have also used Mandrake 9.2 and Suse 9.1. In my opinion, Fedora is far more robust and powerful as an operating system than either one of the former.

Having said that, I will remain neutral, and also like to point out that it is a superior OS, and NOT a superior desktop replacement.

For the newbie, who would like to migrate from M$ Windoz, I would recommend Suse as the alternative. Fedora is a testbed for RedHat technologies, as RedHat itself claims, and is ideal for experts, and not the newbies.

Also, as Fedora contains a lot of Server configuration tools, I would think that it is aimed at the Server market, perhaps.

Hope I helped. If I did, please tell someone that you love them, and make their day

The major shortfall about Fedoras own config tools is that you don't have command line equivalents. You can run most of the tools in drakconf and yast in the command line as well as gui. You are right though that if you are a pro, Fedora is not hard to administer.