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fedora 7



On 6/3/07, Jarod Wilson <jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> s/Ubuntu Feisty/Any Modern Distro/ ...

Remember that Jarod works for Red Hat, so no bias there :-)  I wonder
if Jarod has really ever run Debian/Ubuntu anyways.  As always, don't
take anyone's word until you try it yourself.  YMMV...

> For example, Fedora 7 has all the same stuff available. The only bits
> you have to add from a 3rd-party repo are a few multimedia bits and/
> or maybe some binary-only video drivers or wireless drivers.

Same for Ubuntu...but likely not any bits from 3rd party repos...unlike Fedora.

> /me currently runs Fedora 7 on five different architectures -- x86,
> x86_64, ia64, ppc and ppc64, and pretty much everything always Just
> Works. Well, except xen on ia64 right now...

I've run Ubuntu on sparc, x86, x86_64, ia64, and ppc.  Yay for Linux.
It's not really any different for Fedora...
-- 
Kristian Hermansen

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