Catharsis - slowly my FC4 world crumbles around me
Phil Schaffner
Philip.R.Schaffner at nasa.gov
Thu Jul 21 19:01:14 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 09:21 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 07:52, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> > Thanks everyone for their balanced advice. I'm at a bit of a crossroads
> > with what to do next. I've made up my mind that the reasons for wanting
> > to get away from Windows still apply, but I can't continue the way I'm
> > going. I'd like to go with Fedora because I'm trying to go open source
> > as much as possible.
> >
> > I'm considering wiping the Linux partition and installing FC3 Fresh.
> >
> > Or should I wait for FC5?
> >
> > Dave
>
> You may want to consider using Centos. It is a fedora/RHEL like OS
> built from the same packages that RH releases. It is currently
> equivalent to FC3 and as such should be fairly stable. You will also be
> able to get updates for a longer period of time than you will with FC.
>
> Fedora, particularly new releases, are used to sort out new packages and
> other changes to the OS. If you don't like to work through problems and
> file bug reports then you should stay at lease one release behind the
> latest or use something like Centos.
I agree. In fact, going back to the 2nd response in this semi-
interminable thread (-:
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 16:21 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 13:39 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 02:07 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> > > Recently isntalled FC4, not expecting it to do great things, but
> > > thinking it would at least work. When I first installed, it seemed to
> > > have a few problems, but I thought I could seek out help on the internet
> > > and get them resolved and then settle into the new OS environment.
>
> What were you running before? How about trying a multi-boot environment
> with a more stable version such as FC3 or CentOS4, and leave the FC4
> stuff to age a bit before giving up entirely.
Phil
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