FC2 versus FC3 -- my own experiences

From: JDS (jeffrey_at_example.invalid)
Date: 04/20/05 

Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:26:29 -0400

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... 

-- 
    JDS | jeffrey@example.invalid
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