Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 14, 2005 09:24 PM
Oh no...not again. Not another one of those reviews...
I really can't get why people think that Fedora Core should be as easy to use like SuSE or Mandriva and as stable as Debian. C'mon...FC is packed full with the latest of what Linux and the FOSS community in general has to offer. Of course there would be problems, that's one of the things you can be sure about FC.
Some people complain about the lack of speed of FC4. Have you noticed that it was compiled with gcc4? You can't expect to get full optimization with a compiler as new as gcc4.
Some other people get angry about not being able to play MP3s right from the start. Well...
* Use ogg, or... * rpmbuild --tb --clean --with alsa --with mp3 bmp-0.9.7.tar.gz (how hard can this be).
I have almost 10 years of experience with Linux and I used most of the mainstream distros and I came to this conclusions:
* Fedora Core is not for newbies. * Fedora Core is not for production enviroments. * Fedora Core is not very stable at first, but it gets upgraded very often and some of these upgrades really improve the situation. * Fedora Core is not the fastest distro around. * The FC developers sometimes make huge mistakes.
but...
* Fedora Core is fun to use. You get the lastest technology available and you learn a lot by using it.
and...
* If you're looking for stability: use Debian (whoohoo! X.org made it into Sid!). * If you're looking for ease of use: use Mandriva or SuSE. * If you're looking for speed: use Gentoo (and good luck with that.)
P.S.: Yes, Ubuntu is great, but for now it's not more that a Debian unstable with a nice gnome theme. If you call that user friendly...
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Oh no...not again.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 14, 2005 09:24 PMI really can't get why people think that Fedora Core should be as easy to use like SuSE or Mandriva and as stable as Debian. C'mon...FC is packed full with the latest of what Linux and the FOSS community in general has to offer. Of course there would be problems, that's one of the things you can be sure about FC.
Some people complain about the lack of speed of FC4. Have you noticed that it was compiled with gcc4? You can't expect to get full optimization with a compiler as new as gcc4.
Some other people get angry about not being able to play MP3s right from the start. Well...
* Use ogg, or...
* rpmbuild --tb --clean --with alsa --with mp3 bmp-0.9.7.tar.gz (how hard can this be).
I have almost 10 years of experience with Linux and I used most of the mainstream distros and I came to this conclusions:
* Fedora Core is not for newbies.
* Fedora Core is not for production enviroments.
* Fedora Core is not very stable at first, but it gets upgraded very often and some of these upgrades really improve the situation.
* Fedora Core is not the fastest distro around.
* The FC developers sometimes make huge mistakes.
but...
* Fedora Core is fun to use. You get the lastest technology available and you learn a lot by using it.
and...
* If you're looking for stability: use Debian (whoohoo! X.org made it into Sid!).
* If you're looking for ease of use: use Mandriva or SuSE.
* If you're looking for speed: use Gentoo (and good luck with that.)
P.S.: Yes, Ubuntu is great, but for now it's not more that a Debian unstable with a nice gnome theme. If you call that user friendly...
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