On Thursday 27 January 2005 3:31 pm, Jim Cornette flailed at a keyboard and produced this:
- It is less capable than even late 1990's M$ when you are trying to
setup dual-displays.
- Some drivers are intentionally deleted because "nobody has this
hardware any longer".
- Some programs have lower functionality than they had when they were
first created.
- Disabling ICONs in the menus (mozilla) and not using the default icons
that were provided from the projects. (confusing and too blue)
I, personally, can't think of any reason why Fedora would suck for me. It does all that I need it to do: web browsing, e-mail, writing (very important for me), programming (mostly web development), music and DVD's. I'm not much of a gamer, so that isn't important to me.
Every now and then, FC3 does something unusual and unexpected; this morning, for example, it stopped listening to my USB devices for no good reason that I could see, and wouldn't start listening again until I rebooted. When these things happen, I repeat the mantra: "Fedora Core 3 is bleeding edge, Fedora Core 3 is bleeding edge". Even so, I still have fewer problems with FC3 than I do with my WinXP laptop.
One thing that does suck is that I can't make the SMP version of the 2.6 kernel play with my dual-processor motherboard; I think, though, that this is a problem with the 2.6 kernel and my motherboard, not with FC3, since I had the same problem with SuSE.
Now, why I like Fedora FC3:
Most of my hardware is recognized and is reliable and functional.
New ways to approach computing and keeping security a primary concern.
and of course, because it is downloadable for free and not encumbered
with proprietary software.
I love FC3 because of the strong user community surrounding it. Whenever I have a question I can post it here or to one of the other lists I belong to, and it will be answered. Sometimes sarcastically, but always answered. ;-) Plus, I can customize it any way I like; I didn't like FC's implementation of KDE, so I grabbed KDE from the KDE-Redhat project, and I haven't looked back. Installing my DVD drive was a piece of cake. Running FC3, my old dual-pro 866 MHz PIII works slicker and smoother and more reliably than my 1.2GHz PIV laptop running WinXP. There's almost nothing I can do in WinXP that I can't do in FC3. The only reason I keep Windows around at this point is so I can install audio books from audible.com onto my Creative Zen Nomad+ MP3 player (yes, I do have GNomad installed on my FC3 box, but the Audible.com manager desktop application does not exist for Linux... yet).
I'm not a maniac about FC3; at home I also run an RH8 box and a Debian Woody laptop. At work, I maintain a server running FC2, a couple of Solaris boxes, and an old SunBlade 100 running Gentoo. My world is not all that narrow, though after only three years of playing with this stuff, I'm still a relative *nix newbie.