<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I do recognise that, possibly, most people who work in Linux, professionally, will work with RHEL and so that will obviously be their preference. After all, they know many of the on-going bugs and flaws and how to fix them. However, can they say that they can install all the popular software that Ubuntu has in their Software Centre just with a couple of clicks? Before GNOME 3 has Fedora done a fraction as much as Canonical to make a user-friendly Desktop? I do spend a lot of time getting software to work on Ubuntu that isn't really mainstream but mainstream software is easy to install and maintain. I've tried installing software on Fedora/CentOS, that is just a matter of clicks on Ubuntu, but on Fedora/CentOS it is a major and painful job. RHEL might be considered the OS that separates the men from the boys,
because it is so hard to manage, but I'd go for Debian any day. Up until recently I've had at least one Fedora or CentOS installation but I was glad to get rid and use Debian instead. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Brian<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> David Parkin <david@davidparkin.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Nick Rhodes
<nick@ngrhodes.co.uk> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 12 December 2012, 12:52<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Bradford] Fedora users ?<br> </font> </div> <br>I've used Red Hat or Fedora forever, Red Hat 7.3 I think. Always worked<br>fine for me until two things happened. I tried to upgrade using their<br>preferred method which didn't work. When I finally fixed it by mounting<br>the old distro on a live DVD version and tampering with rpm it looked a<br>mess, plus it came up with Gnome 3.<br><br>In short, I would say it used to be fine but I am now looking for a<br>replacement (not Ubuntu). <br>-- <br>Regards<br>David <br>________________________________________________________________________<br>mob 07981 916330 <br><br>On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 11:54 +0000, Nick Rhodes wrote:<br>> I know
various distributions are in use, Ubuntu is popular and probably <br>> a closet Gentoo user somewhere too, but I don't think I've heard of <br>> anyone using Fedora ?<br>> <br>> Been playing with Fedora 17 in a VM using XFCE and it seems to be a lot <br>> less crashy and broken configy than it used to be.<br>> <br>> So does anyone use Fedora as their regular desktop ?<br>> Is it now at the point where you would trust it on your parents/grans PC ?<br>> <br>> Cheers, Nick<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Bradford mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk">Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>> <a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Bradford mailing list<br><a
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