>From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of alan >Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 9:11 AM >To: For users of Fedora Core releases >Subject: Re: FC4 Users? > > >On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >> >> Hi Folks, >> >> Is FC4 a fully working and stable release? Should I be upgrading >> to FC5 (is it rawhide?) because it is more stable or better or has >> neato features or what? >> >> Since FC5 does not yet have a "stable release", should I wait? > >FC 4 is pretty good. Make sure you have the bandwidth to get all the >patches. (How much depends on how many packages you install.) I would >consider it "stable". (As much as it gets in the Fedora world. More >stable than a few other distros I have used.) > >FC 5 is not ready for production use. The installer on FC5T1 >is minimal >at best and does not install all the expected packages. The >upgrade from >FC5T1 to current Rawhide is a bit brutal and does not have >quite all the >dependancies worked out. (Especially in Extras.) There are >also some odd >breakage in various places. (Mouse cursors are gone, some odd >crashes in >a couple of places, etc.) > >-- >"George W. Bush -- Bringing back the Sixties one Nixon at a time." > >-- ok! Thanks for your input, I will wait! Dan -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.9/216 - Release Date: 12/29/2005
