Upgrade Questions (Newbie)

[Joey Kelley]

Hello All,
         Thanks to all who weighed in on this - I appreciate the comments.
         As my signature says, I am most definately a Fedora Newbie. To put it
another way, the last time I used any Linux version was almost two years ago,
and it was RH 7.2, after 8.0 had already come out. (Was for a class, had to use
what was provided)
         My primary machine at the moment is a XP Pro box, and I have a second
XP pro box for auxilary applications, such as downloading. My primary is
essentially a web, game, and photo editing machine. I also edit and update my
website from it.
         Because the only thing I have yet to do on my Fedora box is to surf the
web, IRC with people, and play a couple of CDs, I have very few programs
actually installed.
         This, combined with the opinion of a couple of others, has lead me to
the decision of going with FC3 when it is released, and simply wiping my FC1
machine.
         At the moment, I am using FC1 to try to gain knowledge of Linux, and
how it can be brought to integration with Windows networks. I want to be able
to take one of my customers' low end machines that their kids just want to use
for instant messenger, Internet, and music use, and put a version of Linux
(preferrably Fedora) on it. This would allow me to put low-end (sometimes
extremely low end, you folks would be surprised what an independant computer
tech finds people using) back on the web, and to good use. The problem is
simply that it must be a GUI, not necessarily windows, but must be easily used.
It must also work flawlessly, and not need to be constantly updated and
modified. Thats my vision, and I'm hoping we'll get there.
         I'm getting off my soap box now! :-)
         cya, Joey

--Joey Kelley, Fedora Newbie--
"If David beat Goliath, Linux
should kick Microsofts butt!"


Quoting Jon Savage <jonathansavage at gmail.com>:

> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 23:34:50 -0300, Trevor Smith <trevor at haligonian.com>
> wrote:
> > On September 26, 2004 5:42 pm, Joey Kelley wrote:
> > >       I have been reading many of these threads over the past couple
> days,
> > > and there seem to be a fair amount of issues with FC2. Currently, I am
> > > running FC1 on a dedicated machine (Pentium II, not sure of the clock
> speed
> > > but its under 500 mhz, with 96 MB of ram and a 6 GB hard drive) and I am
> > > thinking of upgrading it to FC2. (the ISOs are downloading right now) The
> >
> > Frankly, I fear you may not be happy. I had been using FC1 on a PIII 500
> with
> > 386 meg, bought a brand new laptop, must faster processor, faster HD, more
> > ram, and put FC1 on it and I was PLEASED with the improvement. Then I
> > upgraded to FC2 and EVERYTHING slowed down. Seriously. You have been
> warned.
> OTOH I'm running an older laptop using fc2 & FC3 T1/T2 (Compaq Armada
> M700, 320 something RAM, PIII 550) and it has been just fine. Slower
> than my desktop but still far more responsive than my work laptop on
> XP (P4 1.2 Ghz/512 RAM).  I did notice a perceived (not measured)
> performance decrease w/ FC2 Vs. FC1 but FC3 T2 brought back a snappier
> 'feel'. Slick :). 'Nuf said.
> As always, YMMV.
> ---
> Bests,
> Jon
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