Re: FC2 versus FC3 -- my own experiences
From: philo (philo_at_privacy.net)
Date: 04/21/05
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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:24:42 -0500
JDS wrote:
> First of all, I'm not a troll. I'm a longtime Linux user and advocate.
> So please don't take my negativity on FC3 as trolling.
>
> Anyways, I've had a *lot* of problems using Fedora Core 3 (and CentOS4,
> which is basically RHEL4, and has much of FC3's "stuff" in it)
>
> Problems with FC3 (and CentOS4) include:
> * Slooooow! Apps open s o s l o o o w l y.....
>
> * Thunderbird and Firefox crash all the fscking time. I mean, like, five
> times an hour, with no warning and with no error messages, even when run
> from the command line. And these problems occured with the FC3/CentOS4
> supplied RPMs *and* the tar-gz packages from Mozilla.org.
>
> * I had a weird problem with fonts on CentOS -- I tried the KDE font
> installer and it borked all my Type 1 fonts to the point where they no
> longer were anit-aliased and some other rendering issues. In fact,
> initially programs that depended on Type 1 fonts didn't run at all. Like
> xpdf. But somehow I fixed that. I'll never be able to trust KDE's font
> installer again.
>
> * Crossover Office ran very very slowly. Quick as a lick on FC2, but slow
> as my grandmother on barbiturates (and, mind you, Grandma died recently)
> on FC3.
>
> * Awful bug in gamin that prevented one from using removable media (bug
> *was* fixed, but not in the initial wave of updates)
>
> * Other assorted annoyances, mostly relating back to the aforementioned
> slowness and instability.
>
> I've cleaned my installation partition and put FC2 back on it. *And* the
> problems seem to have gone away.
>
> Has anyone else seen problems like mine? I'd really like to see what
> others' experiences have been. One thing I must say, big bugs *do* get
> fixed pretty quickly, such as the gamin bug I mentioned. But I am finding
> myself tired of the FCx upgrade cycle. Enough so that I am considering
> SuSE.
>
> Okay, enough on that. later...
>
>
even though i had no problems with my RH9 install...
i decided to upgrade to FC3.
have to say that it works just fine
with one minor exception:
CD auto-insertion mount broke within the first week...
although that has happened with every version of RH I've previously
used...
one of these days I may even be able to figure out how to fix it...
but all in all FC3 works for me
However I have recently installed SuSE on another machine
and I'm giving that a test...
plus I am downloading Xandros right now to give that a try
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