Will you recommend fedora to a newcomer?

[Craig White]

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.
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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