one thing to remember............. one of the first things I learned was to buy hardware that IS compatible with Linux........ I have stuck to that and I have had no problems............ Don Dupy Systems Administrator Maxxrad PC Services http://www.maxxrad.net email: fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Warren Togami wrote: > Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > > > > >>On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:12:07 +0300, Niilo Kajander <nk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >>>AFAIR when FC3 get released, FC1 "support" will be dropped. After that > >>>the Fedora Legacy Project will take over and provide unofficial updates > >>>for some time. See http://www.fedoralegacy.org/. > >> > >>There is no actual stated date yet for when fc1 will go eol. there is > >>a 2-3 month > >>window after fc2 release when fc1 eol is expected. Do NOT expect fc3 > >>to come out before fc1 eol. FC1 will most likely happen during fc3 > >>testing phase. As soon as the fc3 testing schedule gets > >>created....fc1 eol will most likely be set as well. > > > > > > Considering all of the problems that FC 2 has been having, I wonder if > > Redhat would consider changing the published schedule so that a version of > > FC wouldn't EOL until the second-following version was released. IOW, FC > > 1 shouldn't EOL until FC 3 is released, and FC 2 shouldn't EOL until FC 4 > > is released. That might give folks more peace of mind, that they aren't > > forced to upgrade to a buggy release like FC 2. > > > > This is an untrue and unfair statement. The truth of the matter is FC2 > ON THE AVERAGE is far more stable and greatly improved over FC1. There > have been a few regressions like the dual-boot problem (which is > actually a combination of motherboard BIOS and Windows bugs) that is > actually VERY RARE, but those users have complained loudly and media > hyped it. There is also the P4800 something motherboard blacklist bug, > and the VIA problem. Just because specific hardware is problematic does > not make the entire distribution a "buggy release". > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125270 > Anyway, the first kernel update should be coming soon that vanilla > kernel 2.6.7 is approaching release, and various other updates are in > the pipeline for FC2. You can watch many upcoming updates at this above > URL. > > Warren Togami > wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
