Fedora Core 5 Issues
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Aug 18 03:24:28 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 19:14, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> These all seem to be kernel problems.
> As I mentioned, I prefer to compile my kernels,
> partly because I like to keep distribution and kernel separate.
That doesn't make a lot of sense to me, unless you consider
the distribution's kernel to be broken.
> >> That just leaves non-X applications,
> >> and my impression is that the Fedora RPMs
> >> are nearly always well-tested and reliable.
> >
> > Just not on a lot of hardware.... I have another box with an
> > older adaptec SCSI controller and a really old DEC chip netgear
> > NIC that never has problems.
>
> Which distribution do you consider tests on more hardware?
In a manner of speaking, fedora *is* the test for RHEL
releases (and thus CentOS). No distribution can test
internally on a huge assortment of hardware, so someone
has to push it out to real users.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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