Les Mikesell wrote: >> I've actually been reading the list since it started. >> I've often seen this mantra that Fedora is "bleeding edge" >> and not to be trusted. >> But that is not my experience. > > How many hardware platforms are you using? 5 or 6 - Asus P2B-LS (Scsi only), Athlon-64, Sempron, ThinkPad (T20 and T23), and Sony Picturebook (C1-VFK). > Did you use firewire drives with FC4? No > There was about a 6 month > period when they weren't recognized as drives. People also > have lots of trouble with SATA with about every new kernel. > I have an IBM x86 225 eserver that I'd consider fairly mainstream > with the MPT scsi controller running FC5 and it hasn't booted > with anything newer than kernel-2.6.16-1.2133_FC5smp and that > was several updates back. The current 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5 does see > the the SCSI drives but hangs when initializing the broadcomm gigabit > NIC. Fortunately it keeps the running kernel, so the intermediate > ones have been deleted instead of the last working one, but if it > had been updated and rebooted in a remote site where no one could > power cycle after a hang and select the alternate kernel in grub > it would be dead now. These all seem to be kernel problems. As I mentioned, I prefer to compile my kernels, partly because I like to keep distribution and kernel separate. >> I usually compile the kernel for various reasons. >> (I don't think any of the supplied FC kernels have worked >> with my USB WiFi device.) >> So this again is independent of distribution. >> >> That just leaves non-X applications, >> and my impression is that the Fedora RPMs >> are nearly always well-tested and reliable. > > Just not on a lot of hardware.... I have another box with an > older adaptec SCSI controller and a really old DEC chip netgear > NIC that never has problems. Which distribution do you consider tests on more hardware? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
