On 6/12/07, DamianS <dsteward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
ROFL. You admit to being a noob and then trying to tell us Fedora is a buggy distro? Sorry dude, but you're just plain wrong - Fedora does NOT suck.
i used Fedora 2,3,4, & 6. it is OT so i will keep it short: FC-2 - year 2005, my 1st *NIX distro for a long time Windows user. it ran fine, except i was too much buried into details of "can not find shared library" "XMMS" etc BUT that is not Fedora-bug, that is my newbish-ness :-) FC-3: could not install it on my friends PC. installation broke in the middle. i put FC-2 on the same PC and it ran fine FC-4: i tried it on 4 PCs and it only installed on my PC and not on other 3 PCs, same like FC-3 installation broke in the middle or just after formatting the filesystem.. FC-6: i could install it but X does not display. i tried to change to another terminal using C-M-F3 (or F4,5 6 etc). but i could not change because Fedora FREEZES on using C-M-F(x). then i changed "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" as per my hardware but problem was not solved. then i tried FC-6 on my friend's PC and it installed only 2 CDs, it simply refused to install other CDs even though i have 2 backup CDs ready and those same CDs installed on my system. on 2nd install, it installed 6 CDs but then it did not start any X, like my problem. on 3rd install, it installed 3 CDs only and refused others automatically. i tried FC-6 on my 2nd friend's computer and it said something like this: "not enough RAM, this system has not at least 256 MB of RAM and hence will only do text-based install" and what the heck, that computer had 256 MB DDR RAM.
I do a yum update every day or two, and nothing has broken for the past few months at least.
i used Fedora because it had 6 CDs and all those compilers, GIMP and other stuff built-in. i needed that as i and my friends, being poor, did not have any internet connection. i got a new connection now from my Father's salary :-(, i am still jobless. 1 friend refused and said WindowsXP installs better because it does not refuse to install. other has got a job as "C lecturer" :-). since we never had any internet so we never used Yum or update our system.
The difference between a stable system and an unstable one is quite often the person sitting in front of the keyboard and monitor. Please dont embarrass yourself in future by making public announcements like this until you have some reasonable experience under your belt.
i think that has do to do something with the "hidden secrets". on GUI based GNU distros "/etc/network/interfaces/ifcfg-eth0" and "ifconfig" are the "hidden-secrets". you try to make your system as easy as possible and hide system configuration behind GUIs and that leads to poor-managed system, my opinion only. i am Gentoo user now and find it is quite good as it does not try to hide anything behind GUIs like Sysconfig/WindowsXP and hence i do not have any major problems. some minor bugs are there but that is software, nothing is perfect. i am not talking of Desktops, i still use Window Manager for my work. i am talking of system-configuration. when something breaks on Fedora then Fedora *promotes* using sysconfig "point and click" and gives you text-file as a choice. on Gentoo/Arch/CRUX you have text-files as only choices and it is much simpler to understand the system and reason of any breakage/problem with text-files. i am the only one GNU user in my town. *no* one in my town used *NIX. i am the only one. whatever my friends or other people say about UNIX/Linux/GNU, GNU distro is the best thing that ever happened to me. well, i am no longer a newbie, using Linux from last 1.5 years and at least know what is "the UNIX effect" -> http://arnuld.blogspot.com/2007/02/sf-experience.html -- http://arnuld.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
