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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It's a very long time since I abandoned Ubuntu, 1 year and 9 months being precise, although I continued to use Ubuntu derived distros.
I decided today to give Ubuntu 8.10 beta a try. Obviously, every time I decide to try a Gnu/Linux distribution it happens that a new release comes out: I downloaded Alpha 6 yesterday, I fell into problems with it and a apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade brought me Ubuntu 8.10 beta, correcting some of them
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BD-blog is currently at position 32755 in Netcraft Most visited web sites ranking. This means that I earned about 20k positions in just one month! This is thanks to the link of my review of GOS published on Distrowatch!

BD-blog site ranking, top 30000

I'm very happy with these results but now I want to begin a new race with a brand new domain name! I'm tired of bd-things.net, event if it brought me such great results and knowledge around the Net.
I will announce the new domain name very soon.

Time for a review. Thanks to the always useful DistroWatch.com service, I discovered a new Gnu/Linux distribution, called gOS. gOS stands for Good Os, born in 2007 in California. The version I'm reviewing is the so-called "gOS 3 'Gadgets'", their third release. gOS 3 Gadgets BETA is based on Ubuntu 8.04.1, and the final release is to be expected in the next 1-2 months.
This distribution is built around Goggle apps and services, comes with Google Gadgets for Linux pre-installed, as well other nice programs, like Google Picasa, Wine, Mozilla Prism for Google web applications and Wbar as launch bar. I've never heard about this bar, it's very quick and light. Good choice! The distro also includes proprietary codecs for multimedia content.
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Dopo aver provato quasi un mese di VPS, trasferito il mio blog, effettuato test, configurazioni ecc.. ecc.., é ora di cambiare
Dopo una grande ricerca, ho deciso di firmare per un anno con Linode.com, specializzata in VPS linux!
Mentre sto scrivendo, stanno creando il mio VPS (stavolta ho deciso di spendere di piú, 29,95 $ al mese, chi se ne frega, almeno mi diverto e posso davvero installare ció che voglio)...

Volete sapere la distro scelta? :grin::grin::grin:

Ebbene sí, loro la supportano anche se é in test, ma io mi fido..

ARCHLINUX!!!

La mia distro preferita sia sul mio notebook che sul mio VPS!!!!

Non vedo l'ora di mettere le mani su pacman :D

Sul mio serverino virtuale sto installando:
- la versione di apache che voglio io
- i moduli di apache che voglio io
- la versione di php che voglio io
- le estensioni di php che voglio io
- la versione di mysql che voglio io

Inutile dire che:
- i file di configurazione di apache sono quelli che voglio io
- il file di configurazione di php5 é come lo voglio io
- I sottodomini vengono creati come voglio io e sono quelli che voglio io

Volete sapere la distro scelta per il server?

Image taken from http://www.fede-ulg.org

E tutto bleeding-edge software! Non vedo l'ora di finire e trasferirmi lí
edit: per il poco spazio e per le poche risorse a disposizione (non posso permettermi 30-50€ al mese ) sono dovuto passare per forza di cose a Debian, in quanto Gentoo non ce la faceva.. Va beh va bene lo stesso!