Hi, sports fans! (That’s right, I’ve decided to start addressing you all with stupid and arbitrary tag lines… please deal with it.) Since Jon has put Tyler and I (and ESPECIALLY) Jake completely to shame with his constant blog posts, I’ve decided to keep up my end of this and, after some research, made a decision…
*drum roll please*
My distribution of choice is, and really always has been (mostly) my main idea – Fedora 11. Why? I’m glad you asked. As a relative Linux noobie, Fedora 11 jumped out at me for these reasons:
- As Jon pointed out in an earlier blog post, Fedora is the choice of Linux grandfather Linus Torvalds. This guy obviously knows his stuff. While Linus primarily supports KDE, the supposed ‘lack of maturity’ of the KDE 4.0 user interface caused him to switch to Gnome.
- Gnome, the same default interface as Ubuntu, is an interface I’m used to. At this point, I’m not looking to dive in completely to unknown waters; God only knows I’d just drown.
- NASA also uses it. NASA is badass (not for using Fedora… for that other stuff they do).
- It has proven stability. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a derived distribution, and that’s a rock solid environment.
While I envy Jon’s trumpeting of KDE 4.3 for now (yes, it looks gorgeous) it’s not something I immediately want to play with. Perhaps down the road, and believe you me – it’ll get documented here if I do.
Now, I just have to cross fingers that all of my devices work with this, the latest release of Fedora. I have pretty high hopes for the laptop, but some of my peripherals – like my HTC Dream phone – might run into issues. I’ll re-list my entire system profile here. If you have any input (and I’m very interested in Fedora 11’s improved open driver support for nvidia graphics cards), I’d be happy to hear from you.
- Motherboard: LG P300-U.APB3A9 with Intel GM965 Mobile Chipset
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 @ 2.10 GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 3 MB L2 cache
- RAM: 4096 MB
- Video: nVidia GeForce 8600 M GS (256 MB)
- Audio: Realtek ALC88x series HD audio codec
- Hard drive: 320 GB Seagate 5400 RPM
- Optical drive: LG USB 2.0 slim external DVD+/- RW
- Networking: Intel 4965 A/G/N wireless networking card (I don’t use wired on this)
Looking forward to the adventure ahead, that’s for sure. Also, my apologies in advance for intermittent blog posts; I just started a new job this week and the training is a good time.
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