Steve, ok, thanks for your answer. I am on the way to get IT pro, I started to study information technology in Stuttgart (University of Cooperative Education). But I was using Windows in the school and at home so I am completely new to Linux. Why shouldn't I do updates? You are destroying my vision of MS Windows world ;-) On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 07:39 -0700, Steve Fink wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: "Maciej R." <m.mail@xxxxx> > To: Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:12:06 +0100 > Subject: How do you know? > > > Hello out there, > > > > I wanted to ask why you are using 'Fedora' and not for example 'Suse' > > or > > 'Debian'? What is the reason for choosing 'Fedora'? If you had a choice > > between 'Suse 9.2 Professional - DVD Edition' and 'Fedora Core 3 on > > DVD' > > what would you do? > > > > -- > > Maciej R. <m.mail@xxxxx> > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > Maciej, > > Pretty much everyone here has made the choice to use Fedora over the other > distro's for one reason or another. > > I used to run SuSE on all my servers (1997-2000) and Red Hat on my > desktop. At that time Red Hat's concentration on the gui made Red Hat a > far superior product for desktops/workstations and SuSE's concentration on > the server side tools made it the best choice for servers. > > Then came an ill fated day when I build two brand new DNS servers on SuSE > 7.0 Professional, I could not keep the DNS process running to save my > life. Sometimes DNS would run for days and sometimes it would run for > five minutes but it would eventually crash but the process would still be > listed and shown as running but not taking any requests. After several > SuSE re-installs and alot of hair pulling I finally out of sheer > frustration grabbed a copy of Red Hat 7.0 or 7.1 and installed and setup > DNS and it worked perfectly, those two machines are still running today. > > That was the day I stopped using SuSE and converted everything to Red Hat. > I have since tested SuSE products again but they never quite "feel" right > and I'm not happy with everything being all "YaST'd" up and such. I've > tested Novell's nEnterprise Linux Services on both SuSE 9.0 and RHEL 2.1 > they both performed equally so I went with what I know RHEL. > > Since Red Hat's decision to concentrate on RHEL I've run my servers on > RHEL 2.1 and 3. > > For my desktop I've run Fedora since Core 1 and been very happy with the > results. As an IT professional I live and die by my Laptop and it runs > Fedora Core 3 right now. > > Make no mistake! Fedora Core is bleeding edge software and sometimes you > have to bleed to live on the edge. Make regular backups, don't do > upgrades and HAVE LOTS OF FUN! > > Best, > > Steve > > -- Maciej R. <m.mail@xxxxx>
