John Summerfield schrieb: > shrek-m@xxxxxx wrote: >> Fedora is ok for day_to_day_work. > Just have a look at the fedora-list archive, how many problems there > are that fall in the general categories: > [.......] These are taken from subject lines, and suggest to me that > the problem is more likely to be software-related than user error, and > that are likely ro require local action (ie physical presence) and > substantially prevent the system's use. you count the fedora-list subjects line, i count fedora-bugs, we both should contact our doctor ;) > likely I'm wrong about some (both inclusions and exclusions), but then > I've had some personally that are unreported. > For example, the fine new (to pe) graphical update too crashed > (segfault), so I just use commandline yum. let us talk about rawhide: and without yum? rpm if you need more luxuriance for downloading packages you can use lynx, elinks, *ftp, wget, curl, ... > For example, I've seen loadaverage 45+ and climbing. No idea what it > was doing, I couldn't do anything to find out. It cleared itself by > next day. procps, sysstat > For example, on FC3 the kernel panicked initialising USB on many > systems, including my laptop. > For example, the current xenified F8 kernel doesn't boot without > special (unusual) options on my system. Reportedly it happened on F7 > and was fixed, then recurred in the F8 test cycle, is fixed in the > later standard kernels but not in the -xen kernel. only one seriously bug for me in fc5 (boot from raid1|5) two little update-bugs in f7 not fedora faults: nv-bugs (nvidia) one (ibm)harddisk-crash (no raid - 2004) - only a few lost files, not really dramatically one accidently `rm -rf /path/to/data/` - ok, 2 backups per year is not really often one accidently fc6-i386 update over fc5-x86_64 - oops, nice result :) > These are evidence, amounting to proof in my eyes, that Fedora isn't > suitable for important daily use. > > If you can handle problems such as those, i hope so ;) if all goes wrong i need a rescue- or live-cd and chroot > and they won't seriously inconvenience you if your system is down for > a day or more, then by all means use Fedora for day-to-day work. one day ore more without fedora/redhat ? max. 2 - 4 hours and i should have fedora back for my day_to_day_work even on a completely new system. ok, let us go back to rawhide ;) -- shrek-m -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
