On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 09:21 -0400, Scot L. Harris wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 07:52, Dave Gutteridge wrote: > > Thanks everyone for their balanced advice. I'm at a bit of a crossroads > > with what to do next. I've made up my mind that the reasons for wanting > > to get away from Windows still apply, but I can't continue the way I'm > > going. I'd like to go with Fedora because I'm trying to go open source > > as much as possible. > > > > I'm considering wiping the Linux partition and installing FC3 Fresh. > > > > Or should I wait for FC5? > > > > Dave > > You may want to consider using Centos. It is a fedora/RHEL like OS > built from the same packages that RH releases. It is currently > equivalent to FC3 and as such should be fairly stable. You will also be > able to get updates for a longer period of time than you will with FC. > > Fedora, particularly new releases, are used to sort out new packages and > other changes to the OS. If you don't like to work through problems and > file bug reports then you should stay at lease one release behind the > latest or use something like Centos. I agree. In fact, going back to the 2nd response in this semi- interminable thread (-: On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 16:21 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 13:39 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 02:07 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote: > > > Recently isntalled FC4, not expecting it to do great things, but > > > thinking it would at least work. When I first installed, it seemed to > > > have a few problems, but I thought I could seek out help on the internet > > > and get them resolved and then settle into the new OS environment. > > What were you running before? How about trying a multi-boot environment > with a more stable version such as FC3 or CentOS4, and leave the FC4 > stuff to age a bit before giving up entirely. Phil
