Before I install Fedora Core 3...

[Beri, Rohit]

Robert L Cochran wrote:

> Robert Johnson wrote:
>
>> ... Would *you* install it if you had to do it over again?  Or would you
>> stay with Fedora Core 2?  Or another distro entirely?
>>
>> I ask this because I cant believe all the troubles so many people are
>> having.  Is there something wrong with Core 3? 
>> Thanks,
>>
>>  
>>
> Fedora Core is one of the better distros you can use. It should 
> install just fine on most recent hardware -- I've never really had a 
> serious installation problem with the public releases. The beta 
> releases are understandably more difficult because they are works in 
> progress. The toughest OS'es to install are FreeBSD or OpenBSD. On a 
> scale of very difficult to install to easy, here are my rankings:
>
> OpenBSD
> FreeBSD
> SuSE Linux
> Fedora Core
>
> I think Fedora Core is one of the best distros you can use regardless 
> of your experience with Linux. It is very hard to beat the ease of 
> installation and the GUI components have improved with every release. 
> I've been fooling with Red Hat products since Red Hat Linux 6.1. I 
> still remember the absolute hell of upgrading to Red Hat 6.2. Anaconda 
> was a bit rough around the edges in those days. Bust mostly, I was new 
> to Linux, new to the hardware I was trying to install on, and as a 
> result I made a ton of mistakes. I did one thing right: I kept on 
> trying until I succeeded. (At this point I pat myself on my back 
> warmly before clicking the "send" button.)
>
> Bob
>
>
Installed flawlessly on a dell latitude... No problem yet...

-B