FC4 Users?

[alan]

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:

> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Is FC4 a fully working and stable release?  Should I be upgrading
> to FC5 (is it rawhide?) because it is more stable or better or has
> neato features or what?
> 
> Since FC5 does not yet have a "stable release", should I wait?

FC 4 is pretty good.  Make sure you have the bandwidth to get all the 
patches.  (How much depends on how many packages you install.) I would 
consider it "stable".  (As much as it gets in the Fedora world. More 
stable than a few other distros I have used.)

FC 5 is not ready for production use.  The installer on FC5T1 is minimal 
at best and does not install all the expected packages.  The upgrade from 
FC5T1 to current Rawhide is a bit brutal and does not have quite all the 
dependancies worked out.  (Especially in Extras.) There are also some odd 
breakage in various places.  (Mouse cursors are gone, some odd crashes in 
a couple of places, etc.)

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