Will you recommend fedora to a newcomer?
Lorin B Pino
ljpino at grundyec.net
Sat Apr 15 16:45:46 UTC 2006
Craig White wrote:
>On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 16:57 +0100, Leon wrote:
>
>
>>Dear all,
>>
>>Lately, I have been bringing my laptop to work in my office in a
>>Univ. My colleagues are amazed how pretty the os is (I use the default
>>theme). I have shown them some of the greatest features of linux like
>>the security issue and the vast of free software that do a better job
>>than its windows counterpart.
>>
>>They are interested and want me to help them install linux to their
>>laptop too. From my experience with FC5 since test1, I am not very
>>confident. FC5 is great for experienced people who can fix some minor
>>bugs but it doesn't seems to be a distribution to new users. I would
>>now recommend them to use SuSE linux but would be good to hear your
>>opinions.
>>
>>
>----
>If you want a 'stable' OS - there's RHEL (pay) or CentOS (free)
>
>If you want the 'leading edge' in desktop applications, Fedora is a
>great place to be. Any distribution that is on the leading edge is going
>to have some rough edges.
>
>Craig
>
>
>
I am sending this from a machine running centos. I would not recommend
this for a total newbie, since the mail list community is geared more
for enterprise users. Some people are slightly hostile to newbie
desktop questions. I am planning on trying FC5 soon. Just my opinion.
~Lorin
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