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

From: Happy Bag (oh.sure_at_send.spam.net)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 18:53:58 -0500

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 06:03:29 +0800, Sandgroper wrote:

>
> "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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> Sandgroper
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Yeh.. I had FC1 running real nice here, all I wanted was
to get RealPlayer going.. was working on that, and other
plugins (got flash and java going).. then I went ahead
and "upgraded" with the four FC2 disks. What a mistake
that has turned out to be!

Error applets on going into Gnome, "XKB cannot start.."
etc (apparently it sees two keyboards, pretty funny,
seeing as how I, like billions of others, have only
one attached to my machine, the same one that's been
there through many OSs with *no* problems), hard crashes
when using the "search for files" feature, no changes
when I try to make little configuration changes here and
there.. all stuff that I had *no* problem with in FC1
before this "upgrade."

Ah, well, live and learn.. it's basically beta, I
guess. :)

I'm going to have to just format this out and go back
to the FC1 that I was doing well with (struggled with
the Mozilla plugins, but did learn a thing or two,
thanks to help in these usenet groups and Google).

Say la veeeeeeeeeeeee.. :)

    Happy Bag

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