Sunday, May 10th, 2009
After a short period with Slackware, I took the decision to switch to Archlinux again. I'm using it since one month and I'm very happy about the stability it finally reached. I encountered no freezes using it on my macbook (take a look on their interesting wiki page for info).
I hope that this will last forever 
I've always found Archlinux, its philosophy and its package manager the best combination for a Linux Distribution. Now that it is also stable, there are no reasons to keep away from Archlinux!
Tags: archlinux, pacman, stability
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Saturday, November 29th, 2008
I've never been a big fan of rpm-based Gnu/Linux distributions, since I've always preferred the stability of Debian and Debian based distros, with their great dpkg system.
The problem with Debian on Macbooks is that I do not see both the stability and performance anymore, as I have to use Lenny/Sid. Etch is too old and I don't have the time (*sic*) to play with it to make it work well. Lenny should be next to be released but I don't feel the very famous stability AND lightness of Debian distributions on this release, like I was accustomed in the past years. Is this because I own a Macbook? Maybe, but a Macbook Santa Rosa is nothing more than an Intel-powered notebook with some strange input devices and a strange non-bios system
Regarding Ubuntu, I believe that this distribution has become naff and really slow. See this Slashdot discussion on this topic.
Yesterday I stumbled to Scientechie review of Fedora 10, which convinced me to try it out.
The software shipped with Fedora 10 is aligned with the one provided with the other distributions: Gnome 2.24.0, kernel 2.6.27.5, NetworkManager 0.7.0 (svn) and so on. Read the release notes for more information.
Fedora 10 really surprises me, as it is the first Gnu/Linux distribution in many, many years that makes me feel again the great stability and performance of the Penguin. Therefore I'm writing this review that is also a how-to, as it contains some fixes for Fedora 10 and Macbooks.
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