Just for fun this holiday I decided to install a few different distrubutions onto my laptop. I have a motive really... the new Bamboo Wacom tablet I got for Christmas does not work with the current kernel in Gutsy Gibbon. Needless to say it was a fun experience. Here are some notes from my day.
Since I was already successfully running kubuntu gutsy, I tried to upgrade to the hardy alpha release. The upgrade went alright, unless wireless networking is part of the picture. I couldn't get my wireless card to work with the restricted drivers manager or with ndiswrapper.
Having used Redhat 9 in the past, before moving to kubuntu, I decided to try out the newest fedora. The install was a little lengthy but not bad overall. I found the 'root' account familiar, but odd at the same time. I have grown accustomed to the ubuntu way of life. The wireless did not work here either... next.
I don't know for sure why I tried the next distrubution, it was painful to install, but I did. I burned a copy of opensuse 10.3 and decided to give it a whirl. How long does an install have to take? I think the last time I installed windowsXP took less time and asked fewer questions. Again, no wireless.
I gave up on my ventures and reinstalled kubuntu gutsy. Thankfully I was able to use some posts I had made on the ubuntu forums and was back up and running in just over an hour.
My thoughts on the other distrubutions... Fedora just seemed slow (these were installed and not running from the cd) and opensuse took forever to install. I know many people don't like the Adept Package Manager; however, I find it extremely easy to use. Somewhere in my short stay in each flavor of linux today, I missed the easy to install packaging system I get with kubuntu.
Happy New Year
Mike
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
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