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-====== Linux Distribution Comparisons ======
-===== Personal Experiences =====
-===== (Simono) =====
-==== __Ubuntu 10.04__ ====
-This is the current(30/5/2010) version of Ubuntu (Gnome) 10.04.
-  - Installation was easy and straightforward, took less than 30 minutes.
-  - Upgrade can take several hours, potential warning messages pause upgrade, so it must be monitored to avoid wasting time
-  - Best to wait several days after issue, as bugs are often fixed in the first week.
-  - Relatively low footprint compared to Windows; a Vista-compatible system will have a scorching performance in comparison.
-  - One bug - if you use a resource-intensive screensaver, X sometimes crashes after extended periods. I keep it light.
-  - Long Term Support means it will be supported for 5 years, and directly upgradeable to 12.04 in the future.
-  - Comes with Open Office.
-  - Network printing via CUPS is the easiest of all I've tested to set up, including and especially Windows. Just click the right buttons.
-  - Hardware (currently): Core Duo 2.5 GHz each, 2 GB Ram, 320 GB HDD(SATA).
-  - Webcams work. With this hardware even Cheese can record video. Soon to be assisted(hopefully) by the planned PiTiVi Video Editor recording option.
-==== __Fedora 13__ ====
-This is the current version of Fedora, an Open Source implementation from Red Hat.
-  - Installation was as easy as Ubuntu and as quick.
-  - Most of what the typical user will need (wireless, internet, email) will work straight away.
-  - It doesn't come with Open Office.
-  - It doesn't come with mp3 support. These both have to be added after modifying the software source repositories.
-  - Repository modification harder than Ubuntu.
-  - Depends on RPG modules not DEB.
-  - Installs via both YAM and APT.
-  - Online support is comparatively rare and often alpha-geeky.
-  - Personally, not an easy system to modify.
-  - Difficult to detect on a network, even harder to share with.
-  - Can 'see' Ubuntu shares, however.
-  - Unusually large footprint, 50GB 'root' partition out of a 250GB HDD.
-  - Familiarity in the Gnome desktop, similarities with Ubuntu 8.04-10.04.
-  - My installation disintegrated after four days, lost the volume control icon and could not detect any sound hardware.
-  - Every boot up generated a 'kernel crash' error report. Never seen one before anywhere.
-  - At boot-up, much frustration due to Username being displayed long before the machine was ready to allow login. A practical freeze-up.
-  - Shutdown is in two stages; you have to logout to get to a page where you can shut down. Spammy.
-  - Network printing with CUPS is trouble-free.
-  - Webcams appear to work, but my test hardware has never been able to support Cheese video recording. No change there.
-  - Hardware spec: P4 2.36 GHz, 1.5 GB Ram, 250 GB PATA HDD.
-====__ SimplyMEPIS 8.5__ ====
-  - Installation-  I had to go to a Polish mirror, for straightforward downloads. Not well organised.
-  - Difficult. I tried to use the automatic reformat option for a default installation (over Fedora). It failed, and left behind a corrupted partition table.
-  - Fortunately, there is an excellent manual partitioner in the installer, practically the same as GPartedLive, which allowed me to rebuild the table, create  a 5 GB root partition and leave the rest as an ext4 partition, a big one.
-  - Installation was smooth after this.
-  - Doesn't like legacy monitors much, but no actual faults, just a complaint on boot up.
-  - Setting up the wireless required a lot of fiddling with passwords, password managers and network managers, due to my inexperience with KDE.
-  - Native support for mp3.
-  - Repository management is easy, easier than Ubuntu.
-  - Amarok and Kaffeine needed to be installed for music and videos, but they worked well, straightaway. As usual, MPlayer was the not particularly good default.
-  - Support for Flash and Java was already installed on Firefox, even simpler than Ubuntu.
-  - Sometimes it will see Ubuntu shares right away, if not, the Ubuntu server can be added manually and it will see it.
-  - It is immediately visible and accessible from Ubuntu. Networking is fabulous.
-  - Webcams may be a problem; my E3500 didn't work with Kdenlive or Cheese, although it was detected. Installing VLC is not fun, I don't recommend it, as for one thing it will cause removal of Kdenlive.
-  - Skype is available and my webcam (E3500) worked immediately and well, both video and sound. Very good Skype.
-  - A beautiful look and feel.
-  - Brilliant screensavers, I have mine set to a huge 1970's BBC-style analogue clock.
-  - Network printing via CUPS is fairly straightforward.
-  - Comes pre-loaded with Open Office, like Ubuntu.
-  - Tested on same hardware as Fedora.