Re: Fedora stability

[technical <technical sojourn dyndns org>]

For being free, FC1 it is stable and awsomwe.... the way linux ought to be

> On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Mark Haney wrote:
>
>> Okay, kind of a stupid and maybe useless question, but as I"ve been
>> really
>> tinkering with (gasp!) SUSE, I'm kind of wondering how stable FC1 really
>> is?  I mean I realize there are issues, otherwise this list wouldn't be
>> very useful, but how well does it work as a Workstation (not server) as
>> compared with any other distros especially RH9?
>
> I can't compare to RH9, but I *can* compare it to SuSE 9.0
>
> Don't switch to SuSE.  Trust me on this one.  Baaad juju.  After seing
> what was available, I decided to go with SuSE for my first real exposure
> to Linux in 6+ years.  (And I had no experience with a Linux GUI at that
> point.)
>
> If you needs are met 100% by what's available on the distro CDs, then SuSE
> could work for you.  But adding anything else?  Damn near impossible.
> There are some things I *couldn't* get installed under SuSE, that were a
> breeze with Fedora.  I'm not the only one wih those problems either.
>
> On the positive side, there are more GUI controls for things.  So if
> that's what you're looking for, then maybe it's for you.
>
> Also you can *forget* right now about editing files by hand and expecting
> them to stay that way, and work correctly.  The SuSE likes to rewrite
> stuff on you without warning.
>
> In short, the problems I had with SuSE 9.0 were great enough that I
> abandoned it, even though I paid the $80 for the Professional version.
>
> Using Fedora, I've had a *lot* fewer problems.
>
> Krikket
>
>
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