Which one is better Ubuntu Or Fedora 9

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 10:20 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:45:18 -0700
>> > makhlina at gmail.com (Alex Makhlin) wrote:
>
>> > Both distros have live media. Why don't you download them and try out
>> > each and decide for yourself which one you like?
>
>> Good advice.
> Yep.
>
>> I was installing Linux for a friend, and figured I'd give them Ubuntu
>> as I it would hopefully be easier for them than Fedora. Tried the
>> LiveCD, kept freezing up (requiring hard restarts). Did an install
>> figuring I just needed to update to a new kernel, pre and post full
>> system update, still kept hard freezing. So I went back to old
>> faithful Fedora.
>
> This doesn't mean much. It can be an arbitrary small detail (E.g. a
> kernel or a packaging bug on a DVD), which may spoil everything in a
> particular scenario, esp. on a machine, which never has seen Linux
> before.


True. Didn't help that I got no useful help on IRC though.


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