Sorry just my 2 cents, I love fedora, and I have tried most distros, fedora is my personal favorite, runs fast, smoothly and has all the functions I need.
Pete
From: Edward Yang <neo_in_matrix@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Why I think FC3 sucks!
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:59:25 +0800
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After getting so many reply from my last post, I finally understand why the post aroused so much agitation.
1. It seems for some people, 'FC3 sucks' is the same as '*Linux* sucks'. But I am very sorry, I did not mean that. I just meant FC3 sucks or FC3 sucks because it is worse than FC1 based on my personal experience.
2. Some young guys (mostly students) or even not-so-young guys (what the hell who are they?) like the feel of calling somebody *troll*, and so they seize every possible chance to show off their *skills* at name calling. That's a dark side I already know about Linux communitiy. But, please note I am not saying the *whole* Linux community is bad, I mean a small part of it.
Okay, let me elaborate why I think FC3 sucks or FC3 is worse than FC1. Note that I did not have experience with FC2.
1. Installation. Well, what can I say? It is not worse, but it not any bettern than FC1. Components selection is still very difficult.
2. FC3 could not start into X in Virtual PC. It spews out tons of error messages complaining something that actually should not have caused its failure. So I have to download a temporary patch from http://vpc.visualwin.com/. See page http://vpc.visualwin.com/Notes/FedoraCore.3.Final.html.
3. After several times of kernel updating (at least 3), I finally can boot into X from the so called official kernel provided by FC3.
4. It is hopelessly slower than FC1! I could run FC1 with only 128mb memory and don't feel much sluggishness. I now run FC3 with 164mb memory, but it is visibly slower than FC1! Application startup time is almost unbearable.
5. I am a newbie on Linux, but I already find a few bugs. For example, in gnome-termial, if I set DEL to ASCII DEL in the profile settings, it actualy acts like BACKSPACE. This bug may be specific only to gnome, but since it's bundled with FC3, so I attribute the problem to FC3. It's quite reasonable.
6. I have not acurate data to prove this, but I feel the system boot up time is longer than FC1.
7. This is a minor problem - I only installed kernel+gnome, no KDE. Yet it takes up more than 2gb space. What the hell? A normal Windows 2000 installation usually takes only 1.5gb even with all components selected. I forgot how much was FC1, but FC3 apparently is not doing better or even worse.
8. I may think of others that attribute to this 'FC3 sucks' topic.
Final words - I am not negating Linux. Actually I think Linux and Open Source has a very good future. That's why I am catching the new waves here.
Thanks.
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