On Thursday 27 January 2005 3:31 pm, Jim Cornette flailed at a keyboard and produced this: > > - It is less capable than even late 1990's M$ when you are trying to > setup dual-displays. > - Some drivers are intentionally deleted because "nobody has this > hardware any longer". > - Some programs have lower functionality than they had when they were > first created. > - Disabling ICONs in the menus (mozilla) and not using the default icons > that were provided from the projects. (confusing and too blue) I, personally, can't think of any reason why Fedora would suck for me. It does all that I need it to do: web browsing, e-mail, writing (very important for me), programming (mostly web development), music and DVD's. I'm not much of a gamer, so that isn't important to me. Every now and then, FC3 does something unusual and unexpected; this morning, for example, it stopped listening to my USB devices for no good reason that I could see, and wouldn't start listening again until I rebooted. When these things happen, I repeat the mantra: "Fedora Core 3 is bleeding edge, Fedora Core 3 is bleeding edge". Even so, I still have fewer problems with FC3 than I do with my WinXP laptop. One thing that does suck is that I can't make the SMP version of the 2.6 kernel play with my dual-processor motherboard; I think, though, that this is a problem with the 2.6 kernel and my motherboard, not with FC3, since I had the same problem with SuSE. > Now, why I like Fedora FC3: > > - Most of my hardware is recognized and is reliable and functional. > > - New ways to approach computing and keeping security a primary concern. > > - and of course, because it is downloadable for free and not encumbered > with proprietary software. I love FC3 because of the strong user community surrounding it. Whenever I have a question I can post it here or to one of the other lists I belong to, and it will be answered. Sometimes sarcastically, but always answered. ;-) Plus, I can customize it any way I like; I didn't like FC's implementation of KDE, so I grabbed KDE from the KDE-Redhat project, and I haven't looked back. Installing my DVD drive was a piece of cake. Running FC3, my old dual-pro 866 MHz PIII works slicker and smoother and more reliably than my 1.2GHz PIV laptop running WinXP. There's almost nothing I can do in WinXP that I can't do in FC3. The only reason I keep Windows around at this point is so I can install audio books from audible.com onto my Creative Zen Nomad+ MP3 player (yes, I do have GNomad installed on my FC3 box, but the Audible.com manager desktop application does not exist for Linux... yet). I'm not a maniac about FC3; at home I also run an RH8 box and a Debian Woody laptop. At work, I maintain a server running FC2, a couple of Solaris boxes, and an old SunBlade 100 running Gentoo. My world is not all that narrow, though after only three years of playing with this stuff, I'm still a relative *nix newbie. -- Slainte, Richard S. Crawford (mailto: rscrawford@xxxxxxxxxxxx) AIM: Buffalo2K / http://www.mossroot.com "You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus." -Mark Twain GPG Public Key located at: http://www.mossroot.com/rscrawford.asc
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