[Bradford] Fedora users ?

[Brian]

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. 
Brian



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 From: David Parkin <david at davidparkin.com>
To: Nick Rhodes <nick at ngrhodes.co.uk> 
Cc: bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk 
Sent: Wednesday, 12 December 2012, 12:52
Subject: Re: [Bradford] Fedora users ?
 
I've used Red Hat or Fedora forever, Red Hat 7.3 I think. Always worked
fine for me until two things happened. I tried to upgrade using their
preferred method which didn't work. When I finally fixed it by mounting
the old distro on a live DVD version and tampering with rpm it looked a
mess, plus it came up with Gnome 3.

In short, I would say it used to be fine but I am now looking for a
replacement (not Ubuntu).  
-- 
Regards
David 
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On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 11:54 +0000, Nick Rhodes wrote:
> I know various distributions are in use, Ubuntu is popular and probably 
> a closet Gentoo user somewhere too, but I don't think I've heard of 
> anyone using Fedora ?
> 
> Been playing with Fedora 17 in a VM using XFCE and it seems to be a lot 
> less crashy and broken configy than it used to be.
> 
> So does anyone use Fedora as their regular desktop ?
> Is it now at the point where you would trust it on your parents/grans PC ?
> 
> Cheers, Nick
> 
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