FC4 Users?
Daniel B. Thurman
dant at cdkkt.com
Fri Dec 30 17:12:44 UTC 2005
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>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of alan
>Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 9:11 AM
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>Subject: Re: FC4 Users?
>
>
>On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Is FC4 a fully working and stable release? Should I be upgrading
>> to FC5 (is it rawhide?) because it is more stable or better or has
>> neato features or what?
>>
>> Since FC5 does not yet have a "stable release", should I wait?
>
>FC 4 is pretty good. Make sure you have the bandwidth to get all the
>patches. (How much depends on how many packages you install.) I would
>consider it "stable". (As much as it gets in the Fedora world. More
>stable than a few other distros I have used.)
>
>FC 5 is not ready for production use. The installer on FC5T1
>is minimal
>at best and does not install all the expected packages. The
>upgrade from
>FC5T1 to current Rawhide is a bit brutal and does not have
>quite all the
>dependancies worked out. (Especially in Extras.) There are
>also some odd
>breakage in various places. (Mouse cursors are gone, some odd
>crashes in
>a couple of places, etc.)
>
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>
>--
ok! Thanks for your input, I will wait!
Dan
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