RE: FC4 Users?

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>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

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