Re: LUG: installfest on 22 Apr - Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:45:19 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: installfest on 22 Apr

From : Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin@ncsu.[redacted]>

Date : Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:45:19 -0400

Using upgrade is something no respectable core user does. That feature
has never worked properly.

Fedora uses Gnome 2.14 as opposed to 2.10. The settings are
incompatible. This may also explain font issues.

The rest I can't attest to. Not meaning to argue by this. Just putting
up information.

I will definitely disagree with your recommendation of CentOS. The
packages are out of date, the repos are empty, and the community gives
one the impression that they are the only one using the distro (untrue
as that may be). This has been my experience for the past few months.
I've spent most of it Googling for EL4 packages for obscure libraries,
and usually failing because everyone else has moved on to another
library that my system/kernel is too out of date to use.

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 01:14 -0400, Jonathan Smith wrote:
> Mark Hamrick wrote:
> > I'm with Jeremy on this one. I have used it, and I have had very little
> > problems with it. I also use quite a few other distros, so don't think
> > I am stating this without comparison.
> >
> > That being said I did have a little bit of adjustment on FC5 with
> > NetworkManager, but that was because it was the first time I heavily
> > used it.
>
> The LUG list has already gotten a few complains iirc about USB mice not
> working out of the box, and I have had friends complain about desktop
> instability, font wierdness, and problems with losing settings on
> upgrade (I guess thats not technically an issue with a brand new
> install, but still).
>
> There are over a thousand open bugs against FC5 right now... over a
> thousand [1]. So many that bugzilla can't comprehend it. All I'm saying
> is that I don't want to have to support some ex-windows user who has no
> idea why $foonecessarycomponent isn't working.
>
> I'm *not* spreading FUD about redhat. RHEL is a quality product.
> However, Fedora Core was not ever meant to be a product, and many of the
> kinks seem to have not been worked out.
>
> /me drops the issue and prays that no flamewars break out
>
> -smithj
>
> [1]: http://tinyurl.com/s5hxa

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