Moving from Fedora to Ubuntu - am I doing the right thing?

[Nigel Henry]

On Thursday 02 October 2008 18:29, Chris G wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 12:23:57PM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 05:14:47PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 11:48:34AM -0400, Ruben Safir wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 04:37:44PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> > > > > I've been running Fedora (7 and 8) for the past year or two, before
> > > > > that I ran Slackware for several years.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm considering moving to Ubuntu and I'm wondering if my reasons
> > > > > are right.
> > > >
> > > > No - your making  a huge mistake.
> > > >
> > > > And seriously, aren't you the only one who can make that judgement?
> > >
> > > Well yes, and I'm going to, but I was asking for some help in making
> > > that decision.
> > >
> > > For a start why do you think I'm making "a huge mistake"?  It would
> > > be useful for me to know so it can help me make my decision.
> >
> > What I think I was trying to communicate to you, evidently
> > unsuccessfuly, was that this is not the place to ask.  This is a
> > pro-Ubuntu forum.  It might be better to ask if anyone here moved from
> > Fedora to Ubuntu and their reasons, and then perhaps wander to the
> > Fedora side and ask them what they think.
>
> Oh, OK.  :-)
>
> I, of course, realise that I'm asking a biased audience, it could
> hardly be otherwise.  I was really asking, as I said, for evidence to
> confirm (or otherwise) my ideas about Ubuntu.
>
> --
> Chris Green

Myself I'm totally unbiased, and run a variety of different distros on my 3 
machines, including Debian Sarge, Etch, and Lenny, plus Kubuntu Dapper, GG, 
and HH, and also all the Fedora versions from FC1 through F9, but excluding 
FC4, as I've re-used the partitions that was on for Archlinux (Don't Panic).

I'm posting from FC2, and that, although unsupported for ages is still running 
like clockwork.

If you have sufficient freespace on your harddrive, I would install 
Ubuntu/Kubuntu as a dual/multiboot install. That way you can keep your FC7, 
and F8 installs, and run Ubuntu/Kubuntu alongside them, and can compare any 
differences yourself.

Having been down the Kubuntu multiboot path, and having messed up where Grub 
was going to be installed, I offer the following advice if you are going to 
install Ubuntu/Kubuntu as a dual/multiboot install.

You will get to the stage where you have the option for manual/custom 
partioning. Having setup your partitions you will be presented with a screen 
with a button to press named "Install". Unless you really want Grub for the 
Ubuntu/Kubuntu install to be installed in the MBR, DON'T press the darned 
"Install" button, as then it will be too late. There is another button on the 
same page named "Advanced", and here you can select where you want Grub to be 
installed. For my multiboot installs I install Grub for my latest install in 
the / partition for the install, then when I reboot when the install has 
completed, I boot into the first distro on the drive, which should have Grub 
in the MBR, then edit /boot/grub/grub.conf (you may have menu.lst, rather 
than grub.conf), and add a chainloader entry pointing to where 
Ubuntu/Kubuntu's Grub is located. Another reboot, and Grub's menu should show 
an entry for Ubuntu/Kubuntu, select that, and you will be chainloaded to your 
Ubuntu/Kubuntu's Grub menu, where you can boot your newly installed 
Ubuntu/Kubuntu.

You no doubt know most of the stuff above, and apologies if that is so.

2¢ worth of perhaps nothing.

Nigel.