Did I make a mistake in starting with Fedora Core 4?

[Dave Gutteridge]

Terry, Tony, Mike,
    Thank you for responding.
    I was a little surprised when Mike said each release should be 
considered independant of the others. I mean, if you say so, I believe 
you, it's just that it seems so counter intuitive. If they are different 
entities with more or less success on different hardware configurations, 
shouldn't they be labelled something that seperates them, not something 
that makes them a sequence? From looking at the web site, it was easy to 
get the impression that FC4 follows FC3 and is intended to replace it.

    Unfortunately, I am not, as Tony asks, doing okay with FC4, which is 
why I asked. I am having problems reading from my DVD/CD drives (an 
issue I am pursuing in another thread). Not to mention not being about 
to get my Wacom tablet to work. These experience, plus seeing other 
people on this list raise concerns about the use of FC4 was what 
motivated me to start this thread.

    I'm a little caught. It's just functional enough that I don't really 
want to do any more reinstalls or switch to FC3. But it's also giving me 
just enough trouble to make me have to keep going back to my Windows 
partition to get certain tasks done. Anytime I want to copy files from a 
DVD or CD-ROM, I have to go to Windows, copy it to that drive, and then 
reboot into Linux and copy the data over from the NTFS partition. That's 
obviously far from ideal.

    It was largely for philosophical reasons that I moved away from 
Windows, but I'm wondering if my jump was premature. Maybe it's true, as 
I've often heard, that Linux (or at least Fedora) isn't quite "ready for 
prime time".

Dave