Which version to use, FC2 or FC3?

[Paul Howarth]

Jason Hoffert wrote:
> I’m trying to decide which release of Fedora to use. I have installed 
> FC3 on my laptop about 5 times now, and after running updates, or 
> installing what I would think are minor applications, within days, the 
> laptop will stop booting properly. Today, it is hanging on “Red Hat nash 
> version 4.1.18 starting.”  The last few times, the computer would hang 
> when running XWindows and I never saw a logon screen. Being new to Linux 
> but fairly savvy with computers, I tried to troubleshoot the problem, 
> and it may have been something with the synaptics driver (or whatever is 
> used for my touch pad mouse), but I couldn’t fix it.
> 
>  
> 
> Is FC2 any worse then FC3? Is there a reason I should lean towards one 
> over the other?  My goal over the next 6 -12 months is to setup a 
> Postfix server with MySQL, PHP, and an admin frontend, like PostfixAdmin.

FC3 is like FC2 but with lots of bugfixes.

FC4 will be out on 6th June. Why not wait a bit and give that a try?

Paul.