system hung

[Robin Laing]

linux r wrote:
> <whiney voice>
> My experience is that Fedora is really out of hand.   A machine
> hanging like that is really a deal breaker.  Fedora Toy 1 was boggy
> enough, and now I am having all sorts of related problems with 2.  I
> am in the same boat.  I guess I will start skipping distro #s and
> going from 1 to 3.
> 
> One of the smartest reasons for running Linux in the first place, is
> stability.  If we aren't going to have that anymore, I am going to go
> back to Knoppix.Debian, or SuSE depending on my needs for a
> distribution.  I know that Fedora isn't officially supported (I can
> see why now), but it looks bad to be slamming out new distributions
> and putting the old ones out to pasture so soon, if we aren't going to
> be having some real rock solid stability.
> 
> <steps down off soapbox>
> 
> 
> Marc
> 

Even upgrading from RH8 and all the associated headaches were better 
than my short lived nightmare with Windows XP.

I had dual boot on my new computer and everytime I tried XP I had 
freezes and crashes.  I couldn't get any work done.

I use FC1 at home and work.  I stress my machine more at home and I 
feel I have a weird problem between IDE and SATA drives (md0) on the 
motherboard.  I will spend the time to look at the problem with FC3 if 
it still exists.

I have had three/four problems with my FC1 at home since January. 
This I feel is quite stable.  I do graphics and movie editting as on 
my home machine with only one little hickup.  I have used my Fedora to 
help those Windows people when having problems.

If Windows was this stable for me, I would probably use it.

My uptime on my work machine is now at 46 days and that was a network 
problem that required a reboot under the administrators directions.

I am waiting for my two year old to come up with a way to lock up my 
home computer.  As I said before, I am a happy Fedora user.  I was 
looking at Gentoo in January but never got past the point of burning 
the install CD.

-- 
Robin Laing