Re: Why I quit Fedora 7

[Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>
> > >   That doesn't always break things but it should be the first thing 
> > > to suspect if you've done it and I think you did mention at least a 
> > > thunderbird and some libraries.  If you have problems that others 
> > > don't, you'll probably have to get back to a stock system and see if 
> > > they are fixed.
> >
> >    I might try that. It has been VERY bad, what with the printer and 
> > Email client not working it is a real bad start. Also Fedora 7 
> > doesn't always come up right. It often comes up without any controls. 
> > Others have this same problem.
>
> If you are looking for more stability, you might like CentOS5 at least 
> for the near future.  It is very, very much like FC6 at the end of its 
> development and it will have a long security/bugfix support life. The 
> downside is that it never gets 'new feature' updates within the 
> version life, so a year or two from now it may look fairly dated as a 
> desktop platform.
   Well for stability I can't fault Fedora Core 4 which I am using now. 
I have been using it for 3 years about and it never seems to have a 
problem. It will soon outlive Windows XP :-)

Karl