Will you recommend fedora to a newcomer?

[Lorin B Pino]

Craig White wrote:

>On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 16:57 +0100, Leon wrote:
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>>Dear all,
>>
>>Lately, I have been bringing my laptop to work in my office in a
>>Univ. My colleagues are amazed how pretty the os is (I use the default
>>theme). I have shown them some of the greatest features of linux like
>>the security issue and the vast of free software that do a better job
>>than its windows counterpart.
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>>They are interested and want me to help them install linux to their
>>laptop too. From my experience with FC5 since test1, I am not very
>>confident. FC5 is great for experienced people who can fix some minor
>>bugs but it doesn't seems to be a distribution to new users. I would
>>now recommend them to use SuSE linux but would be good to hear your
>>opinions.
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>If you want a 'stable' OS - there's RHEL (pay) or CentOS (free)
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>If you want the 'leading edge' in desktop applications, Fedora is a
>great place to be. Any distribution that is on the leading edge is going
>to have some rough edges.
>
>Craig
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I am sending this from a machine running centos.  I would not recommend 
this for a total newbie, since the mail list community is geared more 
for enterprise users.  Some people are slightly hostile to newbie 
desktop questions.  I am planning on trying FC5 soon.  Just my opinion.
~Lorin