So Fedora Core 6 and (K)Ubuntu 6.10 were almost released at the same time last week. First, I tried to upgrade Fedora which failed because of some package dependencies yum couldn’t resolve. I have never done a Fedora Update without any hassle. It’s quite annoying. I wanted to switch back to a Debian based system anyway so I decided to give Kubuntu a try (I’m more a KDE user than a Gnome user, hence the K).

I downloaded the Live-CD image, burned it, booted off it and tried to install… realizing the main reason why I’m using Fedora right now: The ability to seamlessly install on a Software RAID / LVM setup. Ubuntu doesn’t support that out of the box. It may be possible with some teawking and stuff… but I’m tired of all that. I did enough RAID / LVM installations manually back in the day using Debian, Gentoo and whatnot. It was fun, it worked, but I’m lazy now and I want to have some nice installer do all that for me. Fedora does exactly that (but yum just isn’t as good as apt). Example (And I don’t have any fancy external repos configured… at least not many ;) – anyway yum should be able to handle that):

Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies

Error: Package elfutils-libs conflicts with elfutils < 0.123-1.fc6.

Error: Package elfutils needs elfutils-libelf = 0.119-1.2.1, this is not available.

Error: Package elfutils-libelf conflicts with elfutils < 0.123-1.fc6.

Error: Package cyrus-sasl-plain needs cyrus-sasl-lib = 2.1.21-10, this is not available.

Error: Package hal conflicts with kernel < 2.6.17.

Error: Package autofs conflicts with kernel < 2.6.17.

Error: Package openoffice.org-core needs libicui18n.so.34, this is not available.

Error: Package openoffice.org-core needs libicule.so.34, this is not available.

Error: Package openoffice.org-core needs libgcjawt.so.7, this is not available.

Error: Package openoffice.org-core needs libicuuc.so.34, this is not available.

Error: Package elfutils needs libdw.so.1(ELFUTILS_0.119), this is not available.

Error: Package openoffice.org-core needs libgcj.so.7, this is not available.

Error: Package elfutils needs elfutils-libs = 0.119-1.2.1, this is not available.

And yum is just f-in’ slow compared to apt in terms of resolving dependencies and installation/upgrade of new packages in general. So basically it’s broken.
So I did what I did when I updated Fedora the last time: I downloaded the DVD Image, burned it, booted off the DVD and said “Upgrade”. That worked quite well and after another “yum update” everything was fine. To bad that a simple “apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade” would have done the same thing on a Debian based system without problems… I’m quite sure.

So being lazy on one side means having to work more on the other one… Whatever. I’m running Fedora Core 6 now and a nice thing I noticed are these anti-aliased fonts. Somehow I didn’t have anti-aliasing activated… Now I have and it looks quite nice. The Monospace font in “Konsole” is nice to look at, too.

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