I challenged myself to run some other distros earlier this year, and after using openSUSE for a month or two, I then switched to Fedora for the last couple of months. I was really impressed with Fedora 11 after running the Beta & RC. I was running the default version (GNOME), and it's come a long way since I had last used it in 2004 before switching to Ubuntu for a couple of years. I can't speak to its performance in a VM, but on my Lenovo T61 it was quite responsive. I'd highly recommend it. Paul On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Dan Armbrust < daniel.armbrust.list at gmail.com> wrote: > >> > (Hope Fedora 11 will NOT screw up my configurations; >> cross fingers) > > > Good luck with that :) > > I've pretty much given up on Fedora lately. It's been _ages_ since I've > had a good upgrade experience with Fedora. > > I grabbed 11 (kde version), tried to install it on a system that is > currently running fedora core 6, and the live cd won't even boot. Kernel > panic. Made a half-hearted attempt to get around it with various kernel > options... didn't find anything. Most recent Ubuntu live cd boots just fine > on the same hardware. > > So then I installed it onto a virtual system (using Virtual Box) and it > boots and installs slow as snot. After the initial install on the first > boot, most of the kde desktop crashed. > > I installed all of the available updates and restarted it - at least it > doesn't crash now. But it is still really slow. > > Looks like I'll be staying in Ubuntu land for a good while longer. > > Dan > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090617/6f2c620e/attachment.htm