Why I quit Fedora 7
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Sat Jun 9 20:38:26 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>>> That doesn't always break things but it should be the first thing
>>> to suspect if you've done it and I think you did mention at least a
>>> thunderbird and some libraries. If you have problems that others
>>> don't, you'll probably have to get back to a stock system and see if
>>> they are fixed.
>>>
>>
>> I might try that. It has been VERY bad, what with the printer and
>> Email client not working it is a real bad start. Also Fedora 7
>> doesn't always come up right. It often comes up without any controls.
>> Others have this same problem.
>
> If you are looking for more stability, you might like CentOS5 at least
> for the near future. It is very, very much like FC6 at the end of its
> development and it will have a long security/bugfix support life. The
> downside is that it never gets 'new feature' updates within the
> version life, so a year or two from now it may look fairly dated as a
> desktop platform.
>
Well for stability I can't fault Fedora Core 4 which I am using now.
I have been using it for 3 years about and it never seems to have a
problem. It will soon outlive Windows XP :-)
Karl
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