[KLUG Members] Thoughts on Switching to Fedora Core From Ubuntu

[Peter Bart]

Hi Everyone,
        I have an IBM Thinkpad T30 that I currently have Ubuntu 6.10
installed
on. For the most part I have been very happy with the whole thing with
the glaring exception of scanning, and suspend being a little touchy at
times. The person using this has no real complaints; save for not being
able to scan as a user; but I take exception to having to hard reset the
machine at times when it refuses to suspend. I'm not really looking
forward to digging further through the forums to find the solution to
the scanning as user issue and apparently I am one of the few who
actually have suspend/resume working. This is after standing on my head
to get the box to where it is today. Things are picking up for me at
work and I'm having to spend a lot of time and money replacing tools and
a truck stolen recently, so I have less time to kill now. I have a twin
to this machine; which is mine; and it has SUSE 10.2 running on it.
Compared to Ubuntu the install was a snap, everything just worked with
the exception of a documented fix for high power consumption under
suspend and networkmanager sometimes failing to work. So I'm thinking of
simply installing SUSE to make it easy for me but that would be too
easy, wouldn't it? So I'm looking at Fedora Core 6 as an option for one
machine, simply to see how it works. Red Hat seems to be the other
commercial distro, so I'm expecting a fairly painless install. Any
thoughts on this?

Regards,

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Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
http://petertheplumber.net