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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