Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 15, 2005 11:35 AM
Just a few points.
* Fedora Core is not for newbies. Why not? Its still got the best installer going of any 100% OSS distro and is very easy to get up and running. There are many guides on adding multimedia components to it.
* Fedora Core is not for production enviroments. That's just stupid. Plently of people myself included use it at work and have been using Fedora releases in "production environments" since it came out. Up to you if you want to put a distro that isn't supported for a long period in your Fortune 100 company but that doesn't mean it isn't possible.
* Fedora Core is not very stable at first, but it gets upgraded very often and some of these upgrades really improve the situation.
I'd say that qualifies for possibly one of the past releases. Companies like Mandrake and even the supposed paragon of stability Debian have had serious problems out of the box.
* Fedora Core is not the fastest distro around. FC4 is actually quite snappy on modern hardware. For more speed use something like XFCE. I agree that there are speed differences though. That's why users should experiement.
* The FC developers sometimes make huge mistakes. So does everyone else. Some companies like Mandrake in particular have made huge major blunders in their releases. Heck the latest Suse has problems right of the box as well.
As a server Fedora works as well as ANY linux distro out there. If you've really been using linux for 10 years then you'd know that when it comes to servers Linux=linux=linux. They'll all get the job done. As far as desktop use goes, well your mileage may vary. If you want the easiest to use right from the start distro buy a computer with Lindows installed. Its proprietary but it will work with no effort(I don't recommend doing that btw as at that point you might as well just keep using Windows). If you want to use Linux as a desktop then all distros have their quirks. If you want a completely free and open source distro that has a great installer then you could do worse than Fedora.
Anyway just wanted to point out that Fedora isn't as bad as you make it out to be and many people including myself have found it to be a workable distro for both server and desktop use.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 15, 2005 11:35 AM* Fedora Core is not for newbies.
Why not? Its still got the best installer going of any 100% OSS distro and is very easy to get up and running. There are many guides on adding multimedia components to it.
* Fedora Core is not for production enviroments.
That's just stupid. Plently of people myself included use it at work and have been using Fedora releases in "production environments" since it came out. Up to you if you want to put a distro that isn't supported for a long period in your Fortune 100 company but that doesn't mean it isn't possible.
* Fedora Core is not very stable at first, but it gets upgraded very often and some of these upgrades really improve the situation.
I'd say that qualifies for possibly one of the past releases. Companies like Mandrake and even the supposed paragon of stability Debian have had serious problems out of the box.
* Fedora Core is not the fastest distro around.
FC4 is actually quite snappy on modern hardware. For more speed use something like XFCE. I agree that there are speed differences though. That's why users should experiement.
* The FC developers sometimes make huge mistakes.
So does everyone else. Some companies like Mandrake in particular have made huge major blunders in their releases. Heck the latest Suse has problems right of the box as well.
As a server Fedora works as well as ANY linux distro out there. If you've really been using linux for 10 years then you'd know that when it comes to servers Linux=linux=linux. They'll all get the job done. As far as desktop use goes, well your mileage may vary. If you want the easiest to use right from the start distro buy a computer with Lindows installed. Its proprietary but it will work with no effort(I don't recommend doing that btw as at that point you might as well just keep using Windows). If you want to use Linux as a desktop then all distros have their quirks. If you want a completely free and open source distro that has a great installer then you could do worse than Fedora.
Anyway just wanted to point out that Fedora isn't as bad as you make it out to be and many people including myself have found it to be a workable distro for both server and desktop use.
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