Why I quit Fedora 7

[Karl Larsen]

    I did not't pay a penny for Fedora 7 the newest of the Fedora 
versions, but had I paid money for it I would demand a refund. Here are 
the specific reasons I have found. I never got just the basic things 
working.

1. Printing:

    Fedora Core 4: use Desktop-System Settings-Printer
    Fedora 7: I could not find anyway to set up the printer.

2. Email:

    Fedora Core 4: Thunerbird loaded easy from their web page
    Fedora 7: Found a library file was missing. Yum that and it ran. But 
I was unable to bring my old setup to Fedora 7 like I did to other Linux 
versions. With the old data files thunderbird will not run at all. 
Fedora Core 1 through 4 it worked fine.

3. Web access:

    Fedora Core 4: Firefox latest version works but has minor bugs.
    Fedora 7: Firefox is VERY slow to come up and it is quite odd.

4. Writing:

    Fedora Core 4: Easy to get an editor and write
    Fedora 7: SAB.

    Reading this list I have learned the kernel shipped with Fedora 7 is 
corrupt. That explains some of the odd effects that I see. It appears 
that just like the DOS packages of long ago you NEVER want a simple 
number. DOS 4.0 was buggy and bad. DOS 4.1 was a keeper. I'm going to 
wait for Fedora 7.1 to arrive. And I volunteer to write some part of the 
documentation, provided I can make that part work :-)


Karl Larsen