Will you recommend fedora to a newcomer?

[Les Mikesell]

On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 10:57, 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.

I wouldn't recommend an FC version to a new Linux user in the first
half of it's life cycle.   By the second half, most of the problems
have been fixed and the update volume starts to slow down.  Someone
installing FC4 now along with all the updates shouldn't have
any surprises.  They can install their next version when they hear
about some feature they want that their version doesn't have - and
at that point they won't be a new user any more.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com