[Bradford] Fedora users ?

[David Parkin]

I've always assumed that RHEL was bug-free, after all Fedora's done the
testing. Software installation can be a click or two, or a "yum
install". Gnome 2 was a perfectly decent desktop, though others were
available. It's downfall for me was Gnome 3 plus the dodgy upgrade.
There was something amiss with the replacement header file for QT so the
whole installation failed. Not one for Grandma. Might try CentOS. Or
Mint.
-- 
Regards
David 
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On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 13:47 +0000, Brian wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> 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 
> ________________________________________________________________________
> mob 07981 916330 
> 
> 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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