Re: Fedora: FC1 or FC2, which to install?

From: Sandgroper (steveray_at_KNICKERSiinet.net.au)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 06:03:29 +0800

"Igor" <igor.news@merkudelete.org> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.06.07.10.00.02.273071@merkudelete.org...
> Hello,
> I am running RedHat9 on Intel (Pentium 4) and think about switching
> to Fedora. May I install FC2 right away or do I have to install FC1
> first and the upgrade to FC2? Is FC2 for 32bit processor or only
> for 64bit?

If you are running RH 9 without any problems , then ***DON'T*** install FC2
!!! , it's a load of crap !

I had RH 9 running really good and then I did a fresh install with FC 2
about 6 days ago and I have had nothing but problems !!!
Can't get my GF 4 MX video card to work with the nvidia driver , can't get
NFS working properly , can't get samba to work properly , can't get access
to the Gnone samba utility , I have had problems with slow disk reads ,
stalling on boot ups and shutdowns , mainly with NFS and CUPS and the TERM
signal , sluggish response when I access the BIOS at boot up ( yeah that IS
strange ) , some apps don't open when you click on them in the menu ( I
installed everything ) and to frigging top it all off , I just downloaded
80 Mb of updates on a 56 K dial up line and the frigging U2Date package
installation has locked up on me just when it was about to install all the
downloaded packages.

I had a blank Up2Date package installation screen sitting on the desktop and
the frigging hour glass spinning around for the last 10 minutes , I shut the
thing down and now I can't even re-open the Up2Date package installer to
retrieve the updates .

FC 2 is just a piece of crap and a poor man's version of RH 9 , even some of
the file and desktop utilities are tedious and crappy.
I have spent the last 4 days trying to get FC 2 to work , and I have been
using linux on and off for a while and know how to configure a lot of the
system files , but this crap I have on my machine , it has had too many
different problems to from a wide variety of areas to just be a
configuration problem , it's the OS itself that's full of bugs.

I have just now tried to log out of Gnome , and even that has locked up on
me.

My machine is a Intel 866 Mhz CPU , 512 Mb of Ram.

FC 2 is a piece of crap and a Lemon ! 

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