It’s been quite some time since my last post… I had to wipe and reformat my laptop, so everything went bye-bye. Thankfully I had a recent backup of everything in the slightest bit of interest.
I didn’t install SuSE straight off – I wanted to have a bit of a play with some other distros first.
First up was Fedora Core 5, which I had grabbed as soon as it had been made available on the mirrors ahead of its official release. As with all of the recent RedHat and Fedora releases, the distro has polish. The installation is smooth, though the partitioning tool isn’t as good as that of Mandriva (but then, which is?) There are several downsides to Fedora: lack of media support (notably MP3), and lack of NTFS support. In addition, the installer only supports formatting to Ext2 and Ext3, nothing more recent like ReiserFS. Anaconda is very nice, though. The main downside for me, however, is the lack of OOB support for my Intel 2200BG wireless card.
Next up was Ubuntu Badger 5.10. It’s not a bad distro as is, but it doesn’t like WPA. I decided to do a dist-upgrade to Dapper 6.06. This is a nice release, even though it’s still at the development stage. Network-manager has been upgraded recently so that it does support WPA, and the distro has suddenly become useful.
