Re: FC2 versus FC3 -- my own experiences

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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:45:27 GMT

philo wrote:
> 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

Not quite as bad as yours, but I have had also had better luck with FC2
than FC3, in fact that's what I'm using now since my Windows box died.

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