Fedora Woes

[Noah John Gellner]

This mystery for me is why Redhat is such a popular commercial
distribution. 

I remember having a look at Redhat when it was introduced
and didn't like it then - I was a Slackware guy. Against my better
judgment I continue to try their new releases and now the Fedora
releases. I am always disappointed. Usually I am wooed by the relative
ease of the installation, usually when I am temporarily frustrated with
some problem with another distro. But after a few months the Redhat
model drives me crazy and I jump ship. I am now counting the days before
I de-Fedorize my computer. 

By way of contrast, I have been happily
running Gentoo on my server for over year. So sweet.

Yea, and I don't get Nautilus. gtk looks so nice but beyond that ...

Disclaimer: These are my personal opinions and no offence is meant to
anyone who has had other experiences with Redhat and Gnome. More power
to you. No one can fault Linux for providing 101 tools for most jobs.

Cheers,
Noah

On 12:17 Mon 19 Apr     , Tim Writer wrote:
> Of course, by today's standards, Emacs is a model of efficiency.  I ran
> xemacs under a pre 1.0 Linux kernel on a 486/33 with 8MB RAM and I was happy.
> In contrast, the RedHat 8 installer wouldn't run to completion, even in text
> mode, on a PII 300 with 64MB RAM.  When I finally did get the system up, the
> RH up2date icon in the task bar was consuming over 16MB RAM just to let me
> know there were no updates available!

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