Why I quit Fedora 7
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun Jun 10 00:49:20 UTC 2007
Karl Larsen wrote:
>>>> That doesn't always break things but it should be the first thing
>>>> to suspect if you've done it and I think you did mention at least a
>>>> thunderbird and some libraries. If you have problems that others
>>>> don't, you'll probably have to get back to a stock system and see if
>>>> they are fixed.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I might try that. It has been VERY bad, what with the printer and
>>> Email client not working it is a real bad start. Also Fedora 7
>>> doesn't always come up right. It often comes up without any controls.
>>> Others have this same problem.
>>
>> If you are looking for more stability, you might like CentOS5 at least
>> for the near future. It is very, very much like FC6 at the end of its
>> development and it will have a long security/bugfix support life. The
>> downside is that it never gets 'new feature' updates within the
>> version life, so a year or two from now it may look fairly dated as a
>> desktop platform.
>>
> Well for stability I can't fault Fedora Core 4 which I am using now.
> I have been using it for 3 years about and it never seems to have a
> problem. It will soon outlive Windows XP :-)
Every fedora version is solid near/at the end of its life but then you
don't even get security updates.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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