How do you know?

[Maciej R.]

Steve,

ok, thanks for your answer. I am on the way to get IT pro, I started to
study information technology in Stuttgart (University of Cooperative
Education). But I was using Windows in the school and at home so I am
completely new to Linux.

Why shouldn't I do updates? You are destroying my vision of MS Windows
world ;-)

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 07:39 -0700, Steve Fink wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Maciej R." <m.mail at vp.pl>
> To: Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:12:06 +0100
> Subject: How do you know?
> 
> > Hello out there,
> > 
> > I wanted to ask why you are using 'Fedora' and not for example 'Suse'
> > or
> > 'Debian'? What is the reason for choosing 'Fedora'? If you had a choice
> > between 'Suse 9.2 Professional - DVD Edition' and 'Fedora Core 3 on
> > DVD'
> > what would you do?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Maciej R. <m.mail at vp.pl>
> > 
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> 
> Maciej,
> 
> Pretty much everyone here has made the choice to use Fedora over the other
> distro's for one reason or another.
> 
> I used to run SuSE on all my servers (1997-2000) and Red Hat on my
> desktop.  At that time Red Hat's concentration on the gui made Red Hat a
> far superior product for desktops/workstations and SuSE's concentration on
> the server side tools made it the best choice for servers.
> 
> Then came an ill fated day when I build two brand new DNS servers on SuSE
> 7.0 Professional, I could not keep the DNS process running to save my
> life.  Sometimes DNS would run for days and sometimes it would run for
> five minutes but it would eventually crash but the process would still be
> listed and shown as running but not taking any requests.  After several
> SuSE re-installs and alot of hair pulling I finally out of sheer
> frustration grabbed a copy of Red Hat 7.0 or 7.1 and installed and setup
> DNS and it worked perfectly, those two machines are still running today.
> 
> That was the day I stopped using SuSE and converted everything to Red Hat.
>  I have since tested SuSE products again but they never quite "feel" right
> and I'm not happy with everything being all "YaST'd" up and such.  I've
> tested Novell's nEnterprise Linux Services on both SuSE 9.0 and RHEL 2.1
> they both performed equally so I went with what I know RHEL.
> 
> Since Red Hat's decision to concentrate on RHEL I've run my servers on
> RHEL 2.1 and 3.
> 
> For my desktop I've run Fedora since Core 1 and been very happy with the
> results.  As an IT professional I live and die by my Laptop and it runs
> Fedora Core 3 right now.
> 
> Make no mistake!  Fedora Core is bleeding edge software and sometimes you
> have to bleed to live on the edge.  Make regular backups, don't do
> upgrades and HAVE LOTS OF FUN!
> 
> Best,
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
-- 
Maciej R. <m.mail at vp.pl>