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[Richard S. Crawford]

On Thursday 06 January 2005 06:12, Maciej R. wrote:
> Hello out there,
>
> I wanted to ask why you are using 'Fedora' and not for example 'Suse' or
> 'Debian'? What is the reason for choosing 'Fedora'? If you had a choice
> between 'Suse 9.2 Professional - DVD Edition' and 'Fedora Core 3 on DVD'
> what would you do?

When I started using Linux regularly back in 2000, I was using Red Hat 7.1.  
I've pretty much stuck with Red Hat since, which is why I've got FC3 on my 
desktop now.  I do have a server running RH8, which I haven't upgraded 
because it's stable and reliable; and I have another one running Debian 
Woody, which is stable enough for the job that computer is doing (hanging on 
to one file and serving it up over a Samba connection and that's it).

When Novell acquired Ximian and then SuSE, I was very excited about trying 
that out, so when 9.1 Professional became available, I plopped down the $80 
and installed it on a test hard drive I keep around just for testing 
purposes.  After a week of fussing, I could never get it to talk to my 
network card, nor would it see the USB hub.  I've had problems with the SMP 
version of the 2.6 kernel on my computer, so I stick with the standard 
kernel, but with SuSE 9.1 Pro, I wasn't given that option.  The installation 
came with free 30-day technical support, but they were pretty much useless, 
and I didn't find much help in the SuSE user forums.  So I ditched SuSE and 
put FC1 on my computer, and haven't looked back.

I'll probably try Gentoo for the next box I build, since I've heard really 
good things about it.

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