Maybe this story will have a happy ending and I can give it a nicer title, but things aren't looking good so far.
I had to install fedora on my opteron server because i'm under a time crunch and the instructions from the developer I'm working with are fedora centric. On top of that the raid drivers are only recommended in Fedora and SuSe.
I've gotten so used to the ubuntu way of life. Just use apt to get virtually everything I need. I tried installing Gparted the other day. 7 dependencies unresolved and I had no clue what half of them were.
I tried using the system update tool. Huge mistake. I told it to update everything because I have no idea what packages have security flaws or serious bugs. Well, it prompts me on every single package telling me that the package isn't certified with some crap. So it's a click fest for 40 minutes. Or 20 minutes... or 15 minutes... You see, many packages time out and force me to kill the update app and start all over. I still haven't got through the updates yet.
On top of that the video performance is atrocious. Not a big deal since this is a server, but it has been a pain.
So I still hate fedora. I may start over with ubuntu and take my chances there. Dependency issues and driver binary incompatibilities are major obsticles most distros and developers need to fix.
I had to install fedora on my opteron server because i'm under a time crunch and the instructions from the developer I'm working with are fedora centric. On top of that the raid drivers are only recommended in Fedora and SuSe.
I've gotten so used to the ubuntu way of life. Just use apt to get virtually everything I need. I tried installing Gparted the other day. 7 dependencies unresolved and I had no clue what half of them were.
I tried using the system update tool. Huge mistake. I told it to update everything because I have no idea what packages have security flaws or serious bugs. Well, it prompts me on every single package telling me that the package isn't certified with some crap. So it's a click fest for 40 minutes. Or 20 minutes... or 15 minutes... You see, many packages time out and force me to kill the update app and start all over. I still haven't got through the updates yet.
On top of that the video performance is atrocious. Not a big deal since this is a server, but it has been a pain.
So I still hate fedora. I may start over with ubuntu and take my chances there. Dependency issues and driver binary incompatibilities are major obsticles most distros and developers need to fix.
