My laptop is undergoing the instalation of Fedora 9 full candidate. I wanted to know if anyone might know how one can install Windows designed software on Linux Fedora 9.

Any form of help will be much appreciated.

Please e-mail me @ lutendo.mulaudzi05@gmail.com if you can assist me in this regard.

yours in CHRIST,

lutendo

I have found fedora has much better hardware support than ubuntu. My main PCs 8800 would not work at all with ubuntu straight from the box (command line only, no X at all.) And even with the nvidia drivers installed my Laptop’s graphics was not allowed to go above 800×600 despite the monitor supporting higher. On both machines fedora worked graphically first time using vesa, then installing the nvidia drivers was easy and allowed full functionality. Ubuntu also, despite claiming to have drivers for it in the restricted drivers menu, would not use my wireless card, fedora on the other hand without the installing of new drivers it worked first time.

In my opinion:
Ubuntu = more help online
fedora = better operating system, and more help for it than most other distrobutions.

Been using fedora now ever since i bought my new PC and have no intention to move back to ubuntu.

How does this stack up with Ubuntu? I’ve always been curious to check out Fedora.

I’ve always been a fan of Fedora because it’s an incredibly stable operating system. It’s actually what the web server behind our site is running, and they are always pretty on top of the different technologies out there. I still like using Ubuntu a little better because of all the support out there, Fedora will likely be my solution for KDE now.

I’m not actually sure. When/if I get a Mac I’ll let you know.

Firefox 3 Beta 5 cool.

That caught me a little off guard as well since it hasn’t officially been released. I’m guessing that they grabbed a release candidate, but it’s not like it matters that much since the operating system is a Beta release itself.

I’m not 100% sure about that, but I believe you’ll have to reinstall the full version. Normally updates are only available if the developers put together an update package with the necessary files, and I don’t believe they’ll do that for a Beta release of an operating system.

Well looks like it’s shaping up well, I hope the computer science department would upgrade to Fedora 9 before I go back for Masters.