Re: FC3 core over RH9, now no BIND :(

From: John Summerfied (debian_at_herakles.homelinux.org)
Date: 06/30/05

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    Christofer C. Bell wrote:
    > On 6/29/05, John Summerfied <debian@herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
    >
    >>Reports and experience here suggest FC is not the best choice for such
    >>important work.
    >
    >
    > That's because a technical support list isn't the best place to gain a
    > good understanding of a product's reliability. Most of the people
    > posting are posting because they had an issue, not because everything
    > worked fine. The folks for whom everything works great out of the box
    > generally aren't posting about that fact.

    AFAIK all the 2.6.11 kernels have been bad for some, me included.

    Several people, me included, got caught by problems with the latest
    selinux update. If the advice to update the kernel is correct, then
    unless that kernel solves all outstanding problems with USB (I think it
    was ACPI bit me, I couldn't shut down) etc then for those who have the
    latest selinux in place _and_ problems with USB or the other problems
    reported it's likely unusable.

    Actually, the fols "for whom everything works great" aren't especially
    relevant to its reliability. Probably, if the software doesn't work for
    common cases it doesn't get released. OTOH, people with newer or less
    common hardware, and especially with laptops are more likely to have
    problems.

    I pretty sure way of hanging my laptop is to shut the lid, remove the
    wireless PC card, open the lid. It doesn't cope well with hardware that
    vanished while it was napping. 

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