Re: FC2 versus FC3 -- my own experiences

From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/20/05

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    Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:16:41 -0400

    On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:59:00 -0400, JDS wrote:

    > On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:43:52 -0500, Ivan Marsh wrote:
    >
    >> Was this an upgrade or a clean install?
    >>
    >> The only Fedora distro I had issues with was FC1.
    >
    > Clean install on both FC3 and CentOS.
    >
    > I've been reading around and no one seems to have had as many problems
    > with FC3 as I have; most users seem to like it. I hated it. It was so
    > sucktastic that I am afraid to try FC4. Or, maybe, just maybe, "red hat"
    > versions alternate good-bad-good-bad. It certainly seemed to be true
    > (well, true-ish) for the last few versions.
    >
    > RHL8 -- not great.
    > RHL9 -- excellent.
    > FC1 -- not great.
    > FC2 -- excellent.
    > FC3 -- sucktastic
    >
    > That's all IMO, of course.
    >
    > The weird thing was that I was having a lot of the same issues with
    > CentOS4 -- basically RHEL4. It makes me afraid to buy RHEL4, and I have
    > been considering doing that for my servers. But, once again, not to many
    > people have reported the same problems as me.
    >
    > later...

    What kind of hardware do you have? It sounds like you've got some unusual
    device or chipset that uses a driver that somehow got broken in a recent
    kernel.

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