Re: Plea for upgrade capability

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On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 15:57 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> don vogt wrote:
> > Background:
> >  I started with Linux with slackware downloaded on 14
> > (?) floppy disks by ftp from MIT. I changed to Redhat
> > and then dropped off Linux to do genealogy for a
> > couple of years. (now we have GRAMPS and maybe I
> > wouldn't leave Linux today) When I came back, I
> > started again with Core 4. I was quite happy with that
> > until Legacy went belly up. All I really wanted for
> > updates was security updates. I am just a desktop user
> > so my needs should be relatively small. I did a yum
> > upgrade to core5 with few problems, apparently caused
> > by mismatches in repos for xine.
> 
> It sounds to me like FC may not be the best distro for
> you. FC has lots of "thrash". If all you want is for
> it to "just work", then perhaps CentOS or Debian or
> perhaps Ubuntu would be better.

Wouldn't it be better if Fedora was right for him? We'd all benefit and
that is not a bad thing. Ric

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