-----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Howarth Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 7:28 AM To: For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Which version to use, FC2 or FC3? Jason Hoffert wrote: > I'm trying to decide which release of Fedora to use. I have installed > FC3 on my laptop about 5 times now, and after running updates, or > installing what I would think are minor applications, within days, the > laptop will stop booting properly. Today, it is hanging on "Red Hat nash > version 4.1.18 starting." The last few times, the computer would hang > when running XWindows and I never saw a logon screen. Being new to Linux > but fairly savvy with computers, I tried to troubleshoot the problem, > and it may have been something with the synaptics driver (or whatever is > used for my touch pad mouse), but I couldn't fix it. > > > > Is FC2 any worse then FC3? Is there a reason I should lean towards one > over the other? My goal over the next 6 -12 months is to setup a > Postfix server with MySQL, PHP, and an admin frontend, like PostfixAdmin. FC3 is like FC2 but with lots of bugfixes. FC4 will be out on 6th June. Why not wait a bit and give that a try? Paul. Just to throw my 2 cents in, if the machine hangs, sometimes its because it cannot figure out its own name via name lookup. I had similar case like yours. It would hang every time I got so feed up with it I left it on and it eventually finished booting. Xwindows would have a similar problem. I finally figured out that it's the can't figure out its own name problem.
