Switching from Fedora
Johann Schoonees
j.schoonees at irl.cri.nz
Thu Sep 28 00:11:46 BST 2006
Hi Ubuntu NZ
Does anyone have experience switching from Fedora to [k]ubuntu?
I've been using Fedora at work (Core 2/KDE) and at home (Core 3/GNOME)
for a few years. I know just enough to get by but if anything
off-centre happens I have to run for help.
My FC3 at home needs upgrading mostly because getting multimedia stuff
to work for the family has been a bit of a mess.
I tried an Ubunti liveCD and was initially put off because it did not
have gcc on it! I don't quite remember but it might not have had some
pretty standard tools like emacs or wget either. I am used to having
development tools around for my little programming projects.
I am also aware that Ubuntu differs from Fedora in its packaging
parentage: Debian vs. Red Hat, apt vs. yum, etc. It looks as if I
might have to install quite a bit on top of the standard distro. We
do have broadband.
Am I looking at a long learning curve? Dad is not going to be popular
at home if tux racer is out of commission for more than a day. Mum
uses it seriously for architectural consulting work - OpenOffice, the
Gimp, etc.
I would want some control over putting /home and /usr/local (anything
else?) on a separate partition to make future upgrades easier.
War stories, tips, gotchas appreciated!
Thanks,
Johann
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