RE: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

From: Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo [mailto:rodolfo.alcazar@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:22 AM
Subject: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

Well, a fun time (one week), sweating it up to make my ATI and Wifi
work
in Lenny AMD64 but nothing. With old fedora wifi works from the live
cd
and ATI with the update. No need even to try it with my dell or my
Aspireone. So byebye Debian.

I found on lenny many of the bugs and troubles found in Fedora 8 and
9,
which all today are old history. Why losing time? Cant' understand.
Lenny is a nice white-haired rookie (altough older than fedora), apt
is
nice, directory structures and config files are better than fedora,
but
I hardly find Debian a stable distro. Pulling her to further limits
causes a quick breakage. I find hard fedora reporting a segfault, like
lenny gave yestarday on networks-admin gui. Why the battery indicator
suddenly dissapeared, being the panel thingy active? Why it takes so
long to boot -sometimes-?

Farewell, debian. Thanks everybody.
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Rodolfo Alcazar - rodolfo.alcazar@xxxxxxxxxxxx
otbits.blogspot.com / counter.li.org: #367962
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Heh. This is yet another reason why I love Linux. If something doesn't
work for you, switch to another project that does! :-)

What is really funny is that I am almost a complete 180 from you. The
last time I tried Fedora was when 9 was released. I spent a weekend
trying to get things to work. When I tried to update pidgin I ran into
dependency hell and in my feeble attempts to get it working again, I
broke X. Then I just installed Debian. :-)

I am sorry to hear you had problems with Debian, but I am glad you found
a distro that works for you!

Have fun!
~Stack~


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