Will you recommend fedora to a newcomer?

[Leon]

"Filippos Klironomos" <presariod at gmail.com> writes:

> There is only one concern for me. If your colleagues' laptops are
> brand new, with new unsupported hardware, I would avoid FC5 and go to
> something more stable. I have a 2 year old laptop and ever since FC4
> it has been running smoothly with no problems. In the brand new Dell
> XPS I've had lots of problems...
>

Thank you for sharing this. I have the same experience with fc5. After
one month's tweaking, fc5 finally settled in my laptop.

> On 4/17/06, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>     Leon wrote:
>     > 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.
>     > 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.
>    
>     I agree with your assessment, but would suggest you try Debian.
>    
>     Mike --
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Leon