Fedora 11!

Fedora 11, for whatever reason, is named Leonidas

I added the rpmfusion repo using instructions that I got online, and installed the gstreamer plugins (good, bad and ugly). Since then, media playing has been spectacular.

Fedora's been great right from the moment I got it completely configured (however, as you'll find in the post below, that's no easy thing for a first-timer sitting behind a proxy). Gnome-aplications look amazingly good! Firefox looks really nice and linuxdcpp never crashes anymore.

Also, in Kubuntu, when I used to press the shutdown button, the system almost always locked up at a black screen. I'd have to press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and then login and execute

sudo shutdown -P now

to get it to shutdown

I've never had that issue in Fedora.

Also skype never worked for me on Kubuntu, but it works just fine on Fedora.

Even the wireless internet support is Fedora is a level higher than that of Kubuntu. In Kubuntu, I could connect to public networks without any problem, but I could never get it to connect to a WPA-secure wireless network, despite supplying the correct key in Network Manager. In Fedora 11 the process was a breeze.

However, it must be remembered that

1) I went through hell installing Fedora

2) Getting yum to work from behind a proxy was also quite difficult.

3) I had some audio problems - amarok raced through some songs and played them in a garbled manner, but I remedied this by removing pulseaudio

yum remove pulseaudio

4) I have to manually add lines to the menu.lst file in Kubuntu when Fedora undergoes kernel upgrades (I never managed to specify a config file for Fedora from Kubuntu's menu.lst, I always got a file not found error). But I've gotten so used to this, that I find it quite an easy process. Plus, I don't know if there are too many people out there who have both Fedora and Kubuntu installed on the same system (for the record, I've got windows xp as well, for occasions when I'm forced to use it!!)

Anyway, I haven't used Kubuntu in a long while now (a whole month), so I guess I'd say that I'm a Fedora convert!! I like Kubuntu a lot for the ease and the support network, but right now, I'm a Fedora fan!!!