<p>Fedora's bleeding edge (knife just entered the wrist) use of network manager has been a thorn in their otherwise pretty solid builds. They have finally backed off the use of development (pre-alpha IMO) versions and it's become stable and usefull. The first iterations were sorry incomplete gui crap over multiple config files. It still seems to use a special file set for networkmanager that then writes the real network config files. So a manual edit of the real config files is a very bad thing. Grrr.</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On Apr 17, 2010 10:03 AM, "Larry Johnson" <<a href="mailto:larryfeltonjohnson@gmail.com">larryfeltonjohnson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>At the last ALE meeting I heard a bit of good natured banter about<br>
ubuntu versus fedora (or debian based versus red hat based).<br>
<br>
Since I run both fedora and ubuntu (fedora on my laptop, ubuntu on my<br>
desktop), and do not consider myself primarily a sysadmin (I'm more of<br>
a programmer) I've often thought of cataloguing the problems with<br>
various linux distributions. My primary problems with the two<br>
distributions can be summed up simply. Fedora is much more likely to<br>
screw around with my network settings (I don't know or care whether<br>
the fact that I'm running it on a Dell Inspiron laptop is relevant).<br>
Ubuntu has a nasty habit of dropping my audio on youtube. Rebooting<br>
cures the problem.<br>
<br>
For purposes of OS ideological comparison neither have happened to me<br>
on a Windows system, although I consider Microsoft environments to be<br>
oppressive and untenable in terms of actually getting my work done.<br>
<br>
If y'all want more details on the specific versions I'm running, or<br>
hardware info, I'll be glad to oblige.<br>
<br>
Larry<br>
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