Why I quit Fedora 7

[Les Mikesell]

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 :-)

Every fedora version is solid near/at the end of its life but then you 
don't even get security updates.


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   Les Mikesell
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