[Wolves] Fedora Core 3

[Tim Humpherson]

OK Peter,

I have tried the following Distros:

1. Debian (favoured by Jono and my first attempt to install Linux
OS.....pretty hard, but I'll save that for when I get used to Linux
first)

2. Xandros (not bad, but difficult to get good support)

3. Mandrake 10.1 (It's alright, dunno if you would recommend me that or not?)

4. SuSE 9.2 Professional - Pretty cool and I liked it very much, but
tricky when I tried to install softwares.  Maybe I didn't read
properly re the rpm package instructions?

5. Fedora Core 3 (I'm using it currently) - Very nice package, I guess
I might have been influenced to choose FC3 as per Linux Format's
reviews.  Just because lots of people favours Apt-Get technology
(Debian) can be used under FC3.  I don't know how to get that done. 
Moreover, I'm suprised that Thunderbird 1.0 does not work under FC3? 
I wonder why?

So, Peter, just tell me which Linux Distro would you RECOMMEND for a
beginner like me?





On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:59:17 +0000, Peter Cannon
<peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thursday 20 January 2005 09:38, sparkes wrote:
> 
> > The only updates you should make to a stable released product are
> > security fixes and as these are all made available to users online (and
> > via yum or whatever package management tools you use) this is the
> > expected behaviour.
> 
> You misunderstand me :-) what I meant was I don't think they can be arsed to
> put a 'fresh, up to date iso up' not a new release. As you pointed out some
> time ago Fedora isn't a stable release in the strictest sense it is, as
> clearly stated on Redhats site, an off shoot testbed.
> 
> The stable releases are Redhat pay-for products.
> 
> > I would be more wary of a product that released massive iso's every time
> > a fix comes out than one that releases a stable product and leaves it as
> > finished.
> 
> But as you said "Its a dead end distribution as it will never be finished" ;-)
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Peter Cannon.
> peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk
> Fedora Core 3 & Suse Pro 9.2
> 
> "There is every excuse for not knowing
> there is no excuse for not asking"
> 
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