Newbie - Kubuntu 6.1 or FC6?

mrbutabara · 03-22-2007, 11:46 AM

i'm a quasi-newb to linux and my first distro was fedora core 6 and i have to say that my first install was smooth. as everyone else would tell you, it's best to burn the iso at a slow or slowest speed so that there's no problem when checking the cd and installing.

i would honestly have to say fedora and suse require some knowledge over ubuntu/kubuntu. ubuntu was the easiest for me to add to a network, fedora came second (though, i chose to use gnome on my fedora, so finding my way around ubuntu was easy), kubuntu was tricky cause i don't know my way around the KDE, and suse was a little more trickier (took it a while to see my windows network). as for mp3 playing, kubuntu was easy as amarok automatically d/led it for me, i installed xmms in ubuntu and it played autumatically, i ended up installing audacious and its mp3 plugin on fedora (i don't remember why exactly the mp3 plugin wasn't included in fedora), and i don't think i tried in suse.

luckily for me, i have 2 hard drives, both are 40 gigs. i have one just for fedora, and the other, i use to install other distros. i think i'll try out mandriva tomorrow and maybe try gentoo (more for advanced users, from what i hear).

epsilon72 · 03-22-2007, 01:47 PM

I'm using SUSE for right now because I can easily get multimedia stuff up and running with it. One of these days I'll probably try Fedora or Gentoo (probably when I eventually get a laptop for school) but for now I'll just try and learn SUSE.

GNewbie · 03-22-2007, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by epsilon72

I think I'm actually going to give SUSE 10.2 a try (hopefully it works better than 10.1) - kubuntu is really good but I don't like the fact that you're so dependant on the aptitude thing.

epsilon, every distro (to my knowledge) relies on a package manager. aptitude is debian's version. yum is suse's version and rpm is fedora's version.

i've heard good things about suse - i hope it works out for you.

good luck.

MensaWater · 03-23-2007, 09:22 AM

Actually yum is in Fedora.

rpm is for INDIVIDUAL package management.

yum is a tool for retrieving packages and installing them. Additionally unlike simple rpm, yum will resolve dependencies and install those at the same time. The files yum installs are actually rpm packages.

yum is a good tool because you can just run "yum update" after an install and get all the latest versions of the packages you installed.

That is to say it's not either/or - it's both. rpm COMMAND allows for granular control.

man rpm

man yum