Fedora Users — Re: Why I quit Fedora 7

Les Mikesell wrote:

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

Well I have d/l 2 of the 6 cd-rom's for Fedora Core 6 so I replacedFedora 7 with a bare bones FC6 that looks a lot better than F7! So farit all works. As for security you can't beat a DSL systems fire wall. Ilive 1 mile from New Mexico State U which I taught at before retirement.They have 30-50 hackers there who try their best to get into my Linux.None have yet.


Karl