FC3 - i'm disapointed

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kiryl Hakhovich" <administrator at bsolution.net>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 11:01 AM
Subject: FC3 - i'm disapointed


> Hey guys,
> I have to post it.
>
> I have been using RH from RH 7.0
> And was pretty happy with.

I would expect that, as you were using a commercial Linux distribution.  FC 
is *not* a commercial distro.  It's essentially a development environment, 
an open public beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  From 
http://fedora.redhat.com:

"The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open 
source project. It is also a proving ground for new technology that may 
eventually make its way into Red Hat products. It is not a supported product 
of Red Hat, Inc."

I love Fedora, but I recognize that it's going to be pretty rough at times.

> Then moved on to FC1 then FC2.... and now FC3.
>
> I hate to admit it but FC3 is really broken in general.
> I do not want to start a new flame thread but here is a several items i 
> can assume lot's of them has to do with kernel 2.6:
> - usb drivers - not stable
> - network - same
> - some applications compiled on the system - crashes
> - certain kernel updates - make system not bootable
> - Open Office tend to load memory to the point that machine need to be 
> rebooted
> and list grows on a daily basis which is really reminds me a windowZ and 
> nothing close what it was in FC1  on the same hardware for example.

I have no doubt that you've seen those problems.  In my case, I have not. 
For me FC3 has been rock solid on several machines from a home-built P-III 
800 to a Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook to a Compaq Proliant ML350 to a couple 
of Dell Precision Workstation 620s.  I've run FC3 on everything from IDE to 
Ultra320 SCSI, on single and dual proc machines, on Intel, 3Com and 
super-cheapo generic NICs.  All have worked as expected.

I am not for one minute minimizing your pain, I know what you are going 
through and I am sorry you are.  I am just saying "take heart, not everyone 
is experiencing that."

> I understand that this is probably inappropriate post, but i have been in 
> pain since I moved to FC3.

If you need a stable, slowly changing distro you should really look at RHEL 
WS:  http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/ws/.  It's cheap, and if you are a 
student (or know one) it is ridiculously cheap.  RHEL has pretty good 
support but not the insane rate of change of FC.

> Does any one else experience as many problems as i do?

Nope, not me.  I've seen others post with similar issues though, so I know 
it's happening.

> Sincerely,
> Kiryl

Thomas Cameron