[olug] Fedora 10?

Obi-Wan obiwan at jedi.com
Sat Nov 8 01:25:53 UTC 2008


I finally got the new battery for my "new" used laptop (Dell XPS m1210,
core duo CPU).  It came with WinXP installed, but I'm going to put
Linux on it (not sure yet whether to keep a small XP partition to dual
boot, or just go all Linux).  This will replace my POS Mac iBook.

Anyway, I've been using Ubuntu on a number of desktop machines for
a while, and I like it, but I thought I may try something new on
the laptop just for variety.  I'm thinking about Fedora.

I know we've got a couple big Fedora users on this list.  Any reason
I shouldn't run Fedora on this?  I tried the v9 live CD, and other
than some issues when resuming from a "suspend," it all worked well
enough.  When I went to download it tonight, I noticed that v10 is
due out in a couple weeks.  Should I install the "stable" v9 now?
Should I wait for v10 and hope I don't get burned as an early adopter?
Should I grab the v10 beta and live on the edge?

This laptop won't be my primary computer; I mainly use it as just an
email/web appliance from the living room.  It needs to work well,
though.  I'm not in the mood to do lots of troubleshooting.  Any
recommendations?

-- 
Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth                             obiwan at jedi.com
   The stuff of earth competes for the allegiance I owe only to the
     Giver of all good things, so if I stand, let me stand on the
       promise that You will pull me through.  -- Rich Mullins



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