Re:Just wanted to point out a few things wrong her
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 16, 2005 09:48 PM
Ok...I'll try to explain my post a little more.
* Fedora Core is not for newbies.
Every new FC release broke the proprietary NVIDIA drivers installer. On FC4 SELinux was to blame. Also I don't think the "trash-bug" is very user friendly.
* Fedora Core is not for production enviroments.
What I meant with this is that when Fedora Core doesn't give enough time to the 3rd party software to catch up with the newest features. I can give hundreds of examples where a new FC "broke" (I know it's not the right word) compatibility with an older program. That's just unacceptable for a production server.
* Fedora Core is not the fastest distro around.
On the fastest machines you can barely notice any difference in the responsiveness of the system. I have to agree though, that Gnome seems a lot faster. But, although the boot time was reduced it 's still too slow compared with the boot time of some other distros.
I'm a regular XFce user, but since I'm a sucker for eyecandy, I try to use KDE now and then.
I don't agree with linux=linux=linux in servers. That's just a very old perception. The times when all the distros where very much alike is long gone. I had to manage a lot of servers with a lot of ditros and they can be quite different. A lot of my friends have Debians on their servers and they never had as many problems as I did.
Once again, I'm not saying that Fedora is bad. I love Fedora, I use Fedora and I'll continue to use Fedora on my servers and my workstations. My point is that if someone is willing to try Fedora, he/she should be aware that "some assembly is required"<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
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Re:Just wanted to point out a few things wrong her
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 16, 2005 09:48 PM* Fedora Core is not for newbies.
Every new FC release broke the proprietary NVIDIA drivers installer. On FC4 SELinux was to blame. Also I don't think the "trash-bug" is very user friendly.
* Fedora Core is not for production enviroments.
What I meant with this is that when Fedora Core doesn't give enough time to the 3rd party software to catch up with the newest features. I can give hundreds of examples where a new FC "broke" (I know it's not the right word) compatibility with an older program. That's just unacceptable for a production server.
* Fedora Core is not the fastest distro around.
On the fastest machines you can barely notice any difference in the responsiveness of the system. I have to agree though, that Gnome seems a lot faster. But, although the boot time was reduced it 's still too slow compared with the boot time of some other distros.
I'm a regular XFce user, but since I'm a sucker for eyecandy, I try to use KDE now and then.
I don't agree with linux=linux=linux in servers. That's just a very old perception. The times when all the distros where very much alike is long gone. I had to manage a lot of servers with a lot of ditros and they can be quite different. A lot of my friends have Debians on their servers and they never had as many problems as I did.
Once again, I'm not saying that Fedora is bad. I love Fedora, I use Fedora and I'll continue to use Fedora on my servers and my workstations. My point is that if someone is willing to try Fedora, he/she should be aware that "some assembly is required"<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
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