Re: Thoughts on Fedora

From: Peter B. West (pbwest_at_powerup.com.au)
Date: 10/27/03

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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:33:21 +1000

    Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
    > At 18:36 10/26/2003, Justin Banks wrote:
    >
    >> Peter B. West wrote
    >> > So what's your opinion of RH9, both for commercial and personal use. I
    >> > upgraded my 7.3 personal systems to 9 [...] and I have
    >> > never had so many things break on an upgrade before.
    >>
    >> I'll chime in here, just because I feel strongly about this. RH9 broke so
    >> many things it was a disgrace.
    >
    >
    > For the sake of counterpoint and playing devil's advocate, I have 3
    > workstations, 2 notebooks, and about 10 servers on RH9. All were clean
    > installs, not upgrades. A variety of software is run, all installed
    > using RPM and obtained either from Red Hat, FreshRPMS, Fedora Project,
    > or Freshmeat/Sourceforge. Not one single machine has given me a single
    > minute's trouble since they were installed and put online (pretty much
    > right after 9 came out).
    >
    > I'm happily running my home and my small webhosting business as well as
    > several firewall/gateway/netserver boxen on 9, and making money off
    > them. I also do a fair bit of Q&A for friends who run Red Hat, and so
    > far none of them have complained about anything wrong either. Sorry you
    > two had problems (and I am aware that yes, there were some problems with
    > 9) but, your mileage may vary!

    One of mine was an upgrade, one a clean install, onto which I ported
    much that I had accumulated over the years. I have always had trouble
    wit upgrades, because so much of what I have customized is either blown
    away, or left intact but semi- or non-workable. I always allowed a day
    after an upgrade to get things back to normal. 9 seriously broke
    backward compatibility, and I am still finding things that don't work
    the same way months later. Not a problem for new users, but critical
    for upgraders. There was nothing that I saw in the installation
    procedures that pointed me to warnings about likely problems in upgrade
    situations, and the workarounds.

    This list is the best resource I have found to date.

    Peter 

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