[Wylug-help] fedup upgrade to 18 broke my touchpad on DELL Vostro

[Gary Stainburn]

On Monday 17 June 2013 17:14:56 Simon Greenwood wrote:
> I support a lot of Centos machines and run Xubuntu on desktops these days
> and I haven't really been convinced by Fedora as either a server or a
> desktop distribution for a long time as every new version seems to break
> something. Scientific Linux does seem to be a good middle ground for both
> if you don't need cutting edge or rock solid stability.
>
> s/

I've looked at Centos before but the install seemed to be a hastle as many of 
the packages I use are not (easily) available, especially for workstations - 
although I have heard a few people saying CentoS isn't a workstation OS.

I'm interested in your comments regarding Scientific Linux not being rock 
solid as that was one of the distributions I was going to have a look at.

I've also heard bad things about Ubuntu's UI on recent releases which has 
really put me off.

I must admit that until Fedora 17 I have been very happy with Fedora. Even 17 
seemed to work okay although it ws the first time ever that I have seen a 
signicant decline in performance purely by performing one version upgrade.  I 
now have F18 on both my office desktop and laptop and my desktop is now that 
slow that it's virually unusable (it is quite old but still coped with 17).



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Gary Stainburn
Group I.T. Manager
Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk